Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina checks her ticker arsenic she waits for the authoritative opening clip to formed her ballot successful Dhaka, Bangladesh. (AP)
A peculiar tribunal successful Bangladesh volition perceive updates from constabulary connected Monday astir what the country’s information agencies person done to apprehension ousted erstwhile Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her adjacent aides who look charges implicit hundreds of deaths successful a wide uprising this summer.
Hasina has been surviving successful exile successful India since August. 5 erstwhile she fled the state amid the student-led protests. The Dhaka-based International Crimes Tribunal connected October. 17 issued apprehension warrants for Hasina and 45 others including erstwhile Cabinet ministers, advisors and subject and civilian officials. The state is present being tally by an interim authorities headed by Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus.
At slightest 14 people, including a erstwhile instrumentality curate and a businessman who was Hasina’s private-sector advisor, volition look earlier the tribunal connected Monday, according to B.M. Sultan Mahmud, a authoritative astatine the tribunal. Another six radical volition look connected Wednesday, tribunal officials said.
At slightest 20 suspects person been arrested successful the case. The tribunal volition besides question updates from constabulary connected their advancement successful arresting the different suspects, including Hasina. The main authoritative of the tribunal has already sought assistance from Interpol done the country’s constabulary main to apprehension Hasina. On Sunday, Yunus said successful an code to the federation that his medication would question Hasina’s extradition from India.
Authorities accidental hundreds of radical were killed during the uprising successful July and August chiefly by information agents seeking to quell the archetypal protests implicit authorities jobs. The unit intensified arsenic the protests morphed into an anti-government question with much bloodshed, ending Hasina’s 15-year rule. Hasina had besides earlier sought an probe into the killings.