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India backed Hasina’s rise, Mahmudur tells ICT

The Daily Amar Desh editor, Mahmudur Rahman, told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Monday that India played a key role in Awami League president Sheikh Hasina’s rise, in consolidating her power, and eventually in enabling her to become authoritarian...

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BURNING BODIES AT ASHULIA: Trial of ex-MP Saiful, 15 cops begins 

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Sunday began the trial of former independent lawmaker for Dhaka-19, Muhammad Saiful Islam, along with 15 former police personnel, over the killing of nine protesters at Ashulia on the outskirts of Dhaka during the July 2024 mass uprising.

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Ex-DIG Nahidul sent to jail in ICT case

A Dhaka court on Saturday sent former deputy inspector general AKM Nahidul Islam to jail in a case filed with the International Crimes Tribunal...

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ICT order on charges on September 15

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Thursday set September 15 to deliver its decision on whether former Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Habibur Rahman and four of his subordinates will be charged with crimes against humanity committed during the July 2024 mass uprising in the capital’s Rampura area...

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Sweden to lower age of criminal responsibility

Sweden’s government announced plans Wednesday to reduce the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 13 to combat the soaring recruitment of children to carry out shootings and bombings for organised crime networks...

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CID confirms Hasina’s voice calls

Cybercrime and forensic experts of the Criminal Investigation Department on Tuesday testified that voice recordings attributed to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, in which she allegedly ordered the police to open fire on protesters during the July 2024 mass uprising, are authentic...

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JULY UPRISING: Cop testifies senior officers ordered shooting

A police officer on Monday testified before the International Crimes Tribunal-1, accusing his seniors, including former Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Habibur Rahman, DMP joint commissioner Sudip Kumar Chakrabarty and DMP assistant deputy commissioner...

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Ex-IGP Mamun says he was bypassed

Former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that he was not informed about the core committee meetings held at the residence of then home minister Asaduzzaman Khan during the July 2024 mass uprising.

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I want justice before my death, father tells tribunal

Makbul Hossain, father of Abu Sayeed, who is the first deceased during the 2024 July uprising, on Thursday testified before the International Crimes Tribunal-2, stating that two police members shot his university-going son dead.

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ICT begins trial in Abu Sayeed murder case

The deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina allegedly planned to execute student protesters of the July uprising, comparing them to war criminals known as ‘razakars’, according to a leaked phone call submitted to the International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Wednesday...

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Some July victims shot from above, doctor tells ICT

A government physician on Tuesday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that leaders of the pro-Awami League doctors’ platform, Swadhinata Chikitshak Parishad (SWACHIP), had barred the other doctors from treating victims of the July uprising past year, labelling the protesters ‘terrorists’...

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Govt pressured to change autopsy report, doctor tells ICT

A government doctor on Sunday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that he was pressured by state agencies and political figures to falsify the post-mortem report of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur student Abu Sayeed, the first murdered victim during the 2024 July uprising.

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ICT orders arrest of Ex-IGP Javed, 4 others

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Monday issued arrest warrants for five people, including former inspector general of police Mohammad Javed Patwary, over the enforced disappearance and staged killing of seven youths on allegedly suspecting them as extremists in Gazipur in October 2016...

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Woman testifies she identified her burnt son seeing shoe, ID card

Shahina Begum, the mother of Sazzad Hossain Sajal who was allegedly burnt alive in a police pickup van, testified before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Sunday in a case of crimes against humanity against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her home minister Asaduzzaman Khan and former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun...

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US capital sues Trump govt over police takeover

The attorney general for the US capital Washington has sued Donald Trump’s administration over what he called a ‘hostile takeover’ of the city’s police force, which the Republican president said was necessary to fight violent crime...

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Man dies after jumping from roof during drive: ISPR

A crime suspect died after jumping from roof without getting any way to escape after opening fire at members of security forces in Shantinagar area under Manikchhari upazila in Khagrachari district on Friday, according to the Inter Services Public Relation Directorate...

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ICT asks govt to ensure security for witness in Chankharpool case

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Thursday directed the government to ensure security for a prosecution witness who had recently testified in the case of crimes against humanity committed in the capital’s Chankharpool area during the 2024 July uprising...

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Police in uniform spoke in Hindi, say witnesses

Two of the three prosecution witnesses told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Wednesday that police personnel in printed uniforms, present in the capital’s Chankharpool area on August 5, 2024, were speaking in Hindi during the killing of six protesters during the July uprising...

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UN asks Sri Lanka to prosecute war crimes

The UN human rights chief Wednesday urged Sri Lanka’s new government to seize the ‘historic opportunity’ to end its entrenched culture of impunity for war crimes and other abuses...