Bangladesh to seek Sheikh Hasina’s extradition from India to face ‘crimes against humanity’ trial

Bangladesh volition question the extradition of Sheikh Hasina, who fled to neighbouring India aft her authorities was overthrown by student-led thoroughfare protests successful August.

The International Crimes Tribunal successful Dhaka connected 17 October issued apprehension warrants for the erstwhile premier curate arsenic good arsenic 45 of her cabinet ministers, advisors, and subject and civilian officials.

Ms Hasina,77, has been surviving successful exile successful India since 5 August erstwhile protesters stormed her residence successful Dhaka, ending her 15-year regularisation successful the South Asian country.

The deposed person has continued her governmental activities from India, Muhammad Yunus, who heads the interim authorities arsenic the main adviser, told The Hindu newspaper. India’s refusal to nonstop her backmost could sour relations betwixt the South Asian neighbours, helium said.

Mr Yunus antecedently said successful an code to the federation his interim medication would "seek the extradition of the ousted autocrat from India".

"We person already taken initiatives to effort those liable for enforced disappearances, murders and the wide killings during the July-to-August uprising,” helium said.

Ms Hasina, person of the Awami League party, has been surviving successful a harmless location successful the superior New Delhi.

Calling India and Bangladesh twins "born to beryllium together", Mr Yunus said helium wanted to conscionable Indian premier curate Narendra Modi.

"Our imagination is imagining a narration similar the European Union,” helium added, wishing for state of question and commercialized betwixt the neighbours. “That's the absorption we privation to go.”

Ms Hasina’s authorities faced wide protests successful July against nationalist assemblage occupation quotas which rapidly escalated into the deadliest unit the federation had seen successful implicit 4 decades. More than 1,000 people, including children, journalists and instrumentality enforcement agents and journalists, were killed successful the superior Dhaka alone, authorities said.

Police were accused of utilizing lethal unit to incorporate the protests earlier stepping backmost successful the aftermath of the premier minister’s ouster.

At slightest 13 erstwhile apical authorities officials arrested aft the autumn of the authorities appeared successful a tribunal Monday to look charges of “enabling massacres". Another six radical were acceptable to look connected Wednesday, officials said.

Ms Hasina faces charges of "massacres, killings, and crimes against humanity".

Prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam said that the erstwhile apical officials were "complicit successful enabling massacres by participating successful planning, inciting violence, ordering instrumentality enforcement officers to sprout connected sight, and obstructing efforts to forestall a genocide".

The prosecution has contacted Interpol for assistance successful arresting Ms Hasina “as she has committed crimes against humanity", helium added.

The tribunal has asked the prosecution to taxable their probe study by 17 December.

Meanwhile, the US has urged Dhaka to extremity crackdowns connected peaceful protesters aft a objection sparked by a Facebook station led to a clash with instrumentality enforcement officials.

"We person made it wide to the authorities of Bangladesh, arsenic we bash to countries astir the world, that we enactment the close to peaceful protestation and that nary authorities should prosecute successful convulsive crackdowns connected peaceful demonstrations," State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters.