Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina faces 89 murder counts with 5 new charges
In Bangladesh, more than 230 people were killed in violent incidents.
According to media reports, five new murder cases have been filed against Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her former minister for killing five people during the country’s quota reform protests.
The cases, filed in a Dhaka court on Monday, are the latest in a series of cases filed against the 76-year-old leader after she resigned on August 5 and fled to India following a large-scale student protest against a quota system for government jobs.
This takes the number of cases filed against Hasina to 89, the Dhaka Tribune reported.
Five more murder cases have been filed against Hasina, party secretary general Obaidul Quader and 339 others in connection with the deaths of five people during the anti-discrimination student movement, the Tribune reported.
In Bangladesh, more than 230 people have been killed in violent incidents that have swept the country since the fall of the Hasina government. The death toll has risen to more than 600 since mass student protests against a controversial quota system for government jobs in mid-July.
The Hasina-led government was replaced by an interim government and 84-year-old Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus was appointed chief adviser.
Relatives of the victims filed their cases in various courts in Dhaka on Monday.
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First publication: 02 Sep 2024 | 23:50 IST