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Steps to be taken to bring back Hasina to stand trial: chief prosecutor

Newly appointed chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal Md Tajul Islam on Sunday said that necessary steps would be taken to bring ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina back to the country to stand trial over alleged crimes against humanity and genocide during the recent anti-discrimination student movement in Bangladesh...

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Jamaat leaders’ lawyer Tajul Islam made ICT chief prosecutor

Mohammad Tajul Islam, known for his role in defending leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami in war crimes cases during the rule of Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League governments, has been appointed as the chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal....

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Reforms needed in int’l crimes tribunals law

THE interim government has decided to try the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina in the international crimes tribunal, accusing her of genocide and crimes against humanity during the student-led mass uprising in July 1–August 5, along with all those involved in these crimes. The first complaint against her was made with the probe agency of the...

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Fugitive former Philippines mayor arrested in Indonesia

A fugitive former mayor in the Philippines accused of human trafficking and links to Chinese organised crime has been arrested in Indonesia, according to Philippine authorities who are seeking her extradition...

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Nepal approves long-delayed war crimes bill

Nepal’s parliament approved on Wednesday long-delayed amendments to the transitional justice act aimed at addressing war crimes committed during the country’s...

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Complaint lodged with ICT against Hasina over mass killings

The father of a slain student on Wednesday filed a complaint with International Crimes Tribunal against recently ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina over allegations of mass killings and crimes against humanity during the student-led mass uprising.

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Hasina, aides to be tried at ICT

The interim government has decided to hold trials for the ‘mass killing’ committed during the Student Movement Against Discrimination between July 1 and August 5 under the International Crimes Tribunal Act...

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Venezuela: attempted coup by any other name

ONCE again, as in 2002, Venezuela has been the victim of a combined media and diplomatic coup attempt, but this time with the added element of organised crime and a cyber-attack...

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Lawyer, journalist sued over talk-show

Shyamoli Nasreen Chowdhury, the widow of martyred physician and freedom fighter Alim Chowdhury, filed a contempt petition with the Appellate Division on Wednesday seeking action against lawyer Mohammed Mohsen Rashid and journalist Kanak Sarwar for allegedly scandalising the judiciary of Bangladesh by holding a talk-show...

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British-Israeli soldiers in war-crimes zone

BRITISH nationals are serving in some of Israel’s ‘craziest’ combat units in Gaza where they view Palestinian fighters as ‘rats’ and ‘animals’...

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Budget, economic crimes and why we don’t care

THIS has been a good few months for sensational media items and Bangladesh appears to be choking with such content which readers love. First, there was the murder and mince-meating of a member of parliament in a Kolkata apartment possibly over a fallout of smuggling and other deals gone sour and over the share of profits, etc...

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The untold ICC story

Even the most optimistic of political analysts did not expect that the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor would be uttering these words:..

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Israel’s heinous war crime

In a flagrant violation of international norms and humanitarian laws, Israel continues to act with total impunity in Gaza, enjoying Western complicity, and emboldened by US unconditional military and diplomatic support..

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Israel’s crimes far worse than Hamas’s

THERE is one thing we should all be able to agree with Benjamin Netanyahu on: Any comparison between Israel’s war crimes and those of Hamas is, as the Israeli prime minister put it, ‘absurd and false’ and a ‘distortion of reality.’...

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Gaza battles flare

Israeli forces battled Hamas in Gaza on Tuesday after prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu angrily dismissed a bid for an international arrest warrant against him on war crimes charges in the Palestinian territory...

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Jama’atul Ansar supplies arms for KNF’s training: CTTC

The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Friday said that the banned militant outfit Jama’atul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya supplied arms and ammunition for the training of the ethnic armed group Kuki-Chin National Front...

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Govt, ACC must investigate people Dubai Unlocked speaks of

THE findings of an investigation of the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and the Norwegian news site E24 that 532 Bangladeshis own real estate in Dubai could be a ground for Bangladesh authorities to carry forward the investigation and act accordingly...

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Two members of fake documents ring held

The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested two people on charge of embezzling money through trading confidential information of National Identity Card, birth registration certificate and Covid vaccination card...

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Romania indicts ex-president again over 1990 crackdown

Romanian prosecutors Friday issued a fresh indictment against former president Ion Iliescu for crimes against humanity in a deadly 1990 crackdown on protesters, the latest of several proceedings against him...