The slogan “That is the brand new Bangladesh” was spray-painted on the gate of a bungalow, to commemorate the current anti-government protest that ousted then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka College space on August 19, 2024. | Photograph Credit score: PTI
A case was filed on Wednesday (21 August 2024) in opposition to ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 86 others accused of attacking a procession within the metropolis of Sylhet that left a number of individuals shot and injured through the current mass protests on 4 August, bringing the variety of circumstances in opposition to them following her ouster to 33.
Juber Ahmed, appearing president of the Sylhet metropolis unit of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, filed the case within the courtroom of Sylhet Metropolitan Justice of the Peace Suman Bhuiya.
Hasina’s sister, Sheikh Rehana, can be an accused within the case.
Based on the assertion of case, the accused attacked a peaceable demonstration, organised by the Bangladesh Nationalist Occasion and its related organisations in Bandarbazar space of Sylhet metropolis on August 4, which left a number of individuals injured by bullets, The Each day Star newspaper reported.
Amongst these named within the case are Awami League basic secretary and former highway transport minister Obaidul Quader, former house minister Asaduzzaman Khan, former exterior affairs minister Hasan Mahmud, former regulation minister Anisur Rahman and former adviser to the prime minister Salman F Rahman.
With this case, Hasina now faces 33 fees in opposition to her, together with 27 for homicide, 4 for crimes in opposition to humanity and genocide, and one for kidnapping, the newspaper stated.
Hasina fled to India on August 5 after resigning from workplace amid unprecedented anti-government pupil protests.
The Hasina-led authorities was changed by an interim authorities, with Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, 84, appointed as her senior adviser.
Bangladesh’s interim authorities has stated it is going to strive these concerned within the killings through the current mass pupil motion in opposition to the Hasina-led authorities on the Worldwide Crimes Tribunal.
Greater than 230 individuals have been killed in Bangladesh in nationwide violence that erupted following the autumn of Hasina’s authorities, elevating the demise toll to greater than 600 since mass pupil protests in opposition to a controversial quota system in authorities jobs started in mid-July.
On Tuesday, she and 5 others had been implicated in a case filed over the homicide of personal firm worker Firoj Talukder in indiscriminate firing from a helicopter by the Speedy Motion Battalion (RAB) through the current pupil motion in opposition to discrimination.
Earlier, Hasina, her son Sajeeb, daughter Saima and sister Rehana and 17 others had been accused in a case filed over the homicide of a fruit vendor in Jatrabari, the capital, on August 5.
The sufferer’s father, Sultan Miah, filed the case earlier than the Dhaka Metropolitan Court docket, Justice of the Peace Md Shakil Ahmed.
One other case was filed in opposition to Hasina and 49 others for the demise of Md Omar Faruque, a pupil of Kabi Nazrul Authorities School, in Sutrapur’s Laxmibazar on July 19.
Hasina and 24 others have been sued over the demise of Sohel Rana, an 18-year-old textile employee, within the metropolis’s Adabor space on August 5.
In Savar, Hasina and 75 Awami League males had been charged with murdering a barber store employee on August 5.
In Narayanganj, a case was filed in opposition to Hasina, seven former ministers and lawmakers and 179 others for killing a bus attendant in Kanchpur space of Sonargaon upazila.
In Rangpur, Hasina, her sister and 49 individuals had been booked for the homicide of a vegetable dealer through the quota reform motion on July 19.
In Joypurhat, a homicide case has been filed in opposition to Hasina and 216 others in reference to the demise of an auto driver outdoors a police station on August 5.
In Bogura, Hasina and Obaidul Quader had been charged with the homicide of a rickshaw puller on August 4.
