The ICT of Bangladesh, which she formed as a practice, sent two warrants against the former PM and others for enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killings.
Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has issued an arrest warrant against the ousted former Prime Minister and 10 others, including the former Defence Adviser Tarique Ahmed Siddique and former Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed, for alleged enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings.
The orders were issued after the prosecution submitted two petitions demanding the arrest of these 11 persons. The tribunal, presided by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Majumdar, has ordered the law enforcement agencies to arrest and produce Sheikh Hasina and others by February 12, reported The Daily Star.
The tribunal issued arrest warrants against Sheikh Hasina and 45 others in connection with alleged crimes against humanity during the student-led agitation that culminated in her ouster, where over 500 people were killed last year. She fled to India after escaping from Dhaka and has been staying here since.
Relations between India and Bangladesh have been in free fall since Hasina’s ouster and the entry of Nobel laureate Muhammed Yunus as the country’s chief adviser, particularly over a surge of attacks on Hindu minorities. The interim government in Bangladesh has promised to extradite Hasina and even sent a diplomatic note to India over the matter.
