5 new homicide circumstances have been filed in opposition to ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her former cupboard minister over the killing of 5 individuals throughout protests over quota reform within the nation, based on media experiences.
The circumstances, filed on the Dhaka Metropolitan Justice of the Peace’s Court docket on Monday, have been the most recent in a sequence of circumstances filed in opposition to the 76-year-old chief after she resigned and fled to India on August 5 following a mass scholar protest in opposition to a quota system in authorities jobs.
With this, the variety of circumstances filed in opposition to Hasina has risen to 89, the Dhaka Tribune reported.
5 extra homicide circumstances have been filed in opposition to Hasina, social gathering basic secretary Obaidul Quader and 339 others in reference to the killing of 5 individuals in the course of the Anti-Discrimination Scholar Motion, the Tribune reported.
Greater than 230 individuals have been killed in Bangladesh in nationwide violence that erupted following the autumn of Hasina’s authorities, elevating the dying toll to greater than 600 since mass scholar protests in opposition to a controversial quota system in authorities jobs started in mid-July.
The Hasina-led authorities was changed by an interim authorities, with Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, 84, appointed as her senior adviser.
Kin of the victims filed circumstances in numerous Dhaka Metropolitan Justice of the Peace Courts on Monday.
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