{"id":48361,"date":"2025-07-11T05:25:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T05:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=48361"},"modified":"2025-07-11T05:25:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T05:25:39","slug":"bangladesh-ex-pm-sheikh-hasina-indicted-over-deaths-of-hundreds-of-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=48361","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh ex-PM Sheikh Hasina indicted over deaths of hundreds of students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AP&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A special tribunal indicted Bangladesh\u2019s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday by accepting charges of crimes against humanity filed against her in connection with a mass uprising in which hundreds of students were killed last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A three-member panel, headed by Justice Golam Mortuza Mozumder, indicted Hasina, former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan and former police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun on five charges. Hasina and Khan are being tried&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/02\/asia\/bangladesh-pm-hasina-sentencing-jail-intl-hnk\">in absentia<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Responding to the panel\u2019s decision, Hasina\u2019s Awami League party condemned the trial process and said the tribunal was a \u201ckangaroo\u201d court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tribunal opened the trial on June 5. Authorities published newspaper advertisements asking Hasina, who has been in exile in India, and Khan to appear before the tribunal. Hasina has been in exile since Aug. 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bangladesh\u2019s interim government, headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/07\/asia\/muhammad-yunus-bangladesh-government-intl-hnk\/index.html\">Muhammad Yunus<\/a>, sent a formal request to India for Hasina\u2019s extradition, but India has not responded. Khan is possibly also in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al-Mamun, who was arrested and appeared before the panel on Thursday, pleaded guilty and told the tribunal that he would make a statement in favor of the prosecution at a later stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chief Prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam later told reporters that Al-Mamun appealed to the judges to be an \u201capprover.\u201d It refers to a person who pleads guilty and who, in exchange for potential leniency or a reduced sentence, agrees to testify against their accomplices as a state witness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe tribunal accepted his plea to be an approver,\u201d Islam said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp; A special tribunal indicted Bangladesh\u2019s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday by accepting charges of crimes against humanity filed against her in connection with a mass uprising in which hundreds of students were killed last year. A three-member panel, headed by Justice Golam Mortuza Mozumder, indicted Hasina, former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan and former police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun on five charges. Hasina and Khan are being tried&nbsp;in absentia. Responding to the panel\u2019s decision, Hasina\u2019s Awami League party condemned the trial process and said the tribunal was a \u201ckangaroo\u201d court. 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