Bangladesh’s International Crime Tribunal will start an official hearing of allegations against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday. For the first time in the history of the country, this action will be broadcast live on the government channel BTV. Hasina was forced to leave the country after the student movement started against the quota system on 5 August last year. She left Bangladesh and reached India to take shelter and is currently living here. She is facing several cases in Bangladeshi courts, where photography of the trial and live telecast has been banned so far.
However, this tradition will be broken by Bangladesh’s decision to allow live streaming of live streaming of action by Bangladesh’s International Crime Tribunal (ICT-BD). He may have to face the death penalty for the allegations against former PM Sheikh Hasina. The three -judge tribunal had earlier ordered on 18 February that the investigation against Hasina should be completed by April. According to the report of Bangladesh’s government news agency BSS (Bangladesh Sanwa Sanstha), ‘The prosecution will present a formal allegations against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in ICT-BD tomorrow in the case registered against humanity during the July-August 2024 mass rebellion.’
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On 5 August 2024, Hasina’s Awami League government was overthrown after a massive protests under the leadership of a platform called Students Against Description (SAD); Three days later, Muhammad Yunus took over as the Chief Advisor of the Interim Government. ICT-BD prosecutor Ghazi MH Tamim told reporters that the proceedings of the tribunal will begin at 9.30 am local time and the official Bangladesh Television (BTV) has been asked to broadcast the proceedings live. Ghazi said, “The whole country will see formal allegations for the first time in the tribunal against the influential people of the Avami League government including Sheikh Hasina.” He said that this step will ensure transparency in the judicial process.
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ICT-BD chief prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam said that the allegations will be heard simultaneously against former Home Minister Asdujman Khan Kamal and former police chief Chaudhary Abdullah al-Mamoon, both are in jail for the trial. This tribunal was originally formed by the previous government to prosecute staunch colleagues of Pakistani soldiers during the liberation struggle of 1971. Six top leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and a leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia were hanged after being convicted by this court.
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The ICT-BD had earlier issued an arrest warrant against Hasina, while the interim government had demanded his extradition from India in a diplomatic note. New Delhi has accepted only about receiving diplomatic note, no further comment has been made. During the violence in July-August last year, Sheikh Hasina’s party Awami League and most senior leaders and officials of the government were arrested to face allegations like mass murder to control protesters, in which hundreds of people, including students and policemen, were killed. According to the report of the United Nations Human Rights Office, about 1,400 people were killed in Bangladesh between July 15 and August 15 last year and violence continued even after the fall of the Hasina government.