A case has been filed against 165 individuals, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and eight journalists, in connection with their alleged involvement in the mass killing of protesters in the July-August uprising.
A sedition case was filed against deposed prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina and 73 others on Thursday on allegations of plotting a civil war.
India was aware of an anti-Sheikh Hasina wave building up in Bangladesh ahead of the violent overthrow of the former prime minister鈥檚 government on August 5,聽 2024, external affairs minister S Jaishankar informed the Consultative Committee on...
ATTACKS on and harassment of journalists are reported to have surged, especially beginning with February after such incidents came down that had a worrying increase since August 2024, when the prime minister Sheikh Hasina was deposed in a mass uprising and an interim government assumed office three days later. Rights group Ain O Salish Kendra data report that...
A case was filed against 431 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader allegedly for attempting to murder Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal activist Zakirul Islam during the July-August mass uprising....
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed two cases against Saima Wazed Putul on charges of forgery to secure appointment at the World Health Organization and coercing 20 banks into depositing Tk 33.05 crore in the accounts of the Shuchona Foundation...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Tuesday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze 31 more bank accounts of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, daughter Saima Wazed Putul...
BANGLADESH won its second freedom on August 5, 2024, after a bloody mass movement against the authoritarian rule of Sheikh Hasina, who has been in power for 16 years. In a desperate attempt to cling to power, Hasina and her government unleashed a brutal crackdown, resulting in the deaths of as many as 1,400 people between July 15 and August 5, 2024...
The interim government has launched a road map for recovering stolen assets linked to 11 priority cases involving ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury and nine business groups.
The International Crimes Tribunal on Wednesday issued arrest warrants against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, Ganajagaran Mancha spokesman Imran H Sarker and three others in connection with crimes against humanity committed during the crackdown on Hefazat-e-Islam鈥檚 sit-in at Shapla Chattar in Dhaka in May 5鈥�6 in 2013...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Tuesday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to seize 124 bank accounts and assets of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, and their family members and...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday approved charge sheets against 29 people, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her sister Sheikh Rehana, in six cases filed on charges of corruption in allotting...
The defence ministry proposed to rename 16 sangsthas, institutions and establishments under the jurisdiction of Bangladesh army, changing the previous ones given after the names of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina or her family members or people involved with her government.
BANGLADESHI parties, still gutsy, encounter a heightened existential fear 鈥� the disquiet of a deep institutional crisis for them and the nation at large. And yet, parties are strategic to the country鈥檚 liberal democratic future. Since prime minister Sheikh Hasina lost power to the unprecedented civil unrest on August 5, 2024 and Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus-led...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday said that there was no relation between the legal proceedings against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and the upcoming national election...
A case was filed against three named and 14-15 unnamed people on Wednesday over alleged looting of valuables from a house Tuesday evening in the capital鈥檚 Gulshan area claiming that the house belonged to Tanveer Imam, son of the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 political adviser late HT Imam...
Bangladesh chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus in an interview with the United Kingdom-based Sky News has said that the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina will stand trial for crimes against humanity...
The metropolitan special judge court on Tuesday ordered to freeze 14 bank accounts of Suchana Foundation of Saima Wajed Putul, South East Asian regional director of the World Health Organization and daughter of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina...
Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday stressed documenting all atrocities committed during the regime of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, including the crackdown on protesters at Shapla Chattar, police brutality against protesters after the verdict against Delwar Hossain Sayeedi and extrajudicial killings over the years.
The High Court (HC) today acquitted former BNP lawmaker Habibul Islam Habib of the charges in a case lodged over the 2002 attack on the motorcade of the then leader of the opposition Sheikh Hasina in Satkhira.
Voices for justice over the killings of 74 people, including 57 army officers, in the then Bangladesh Rifles headquarters at the capital鈥檚 Pilkhana during the 2009 BDR mutiny have been getting louder since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime on August 5, 2024 amid a mass uprising.
The International Crimes Tribunal鈥檚 chief prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam on Sunday claimed that the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina had issued a 鈥榥o treatment, no release鈥� directive to a hospital in Dhaka during the July-August uprising.
THE political landscape of Bangladesh has been irrevocably altered by the events of July and August 2024, when the Awami League, led by former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, responded to student-led protests with brutal repression. Law enforcement, alongside party activists, cracked down on predominantly non-violent demonstrations, culminating...
The International Crimes Tribunal on Tuesday extended the deadline to April 20 for submitting investigation reports against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others over the allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the July-August mass uprising...
The Network for Democratic Bangladesh, an international activist group of expatriate Bangladeshis, on Sunday urged the interim government to prosecute deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and others on charge of...
Women who actively participated in the July movement on Sunday demanded that Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League be banned, accusing them of committing mass killings during the uprising.
The United Nations Human Rights Office in a fact-finding report has stated that it did not find any genuine efforts by the Sheikh Hasina government to investigate any of the serious violations and abuses committed by the state鈥檚 security forces...
Cultural organisation Samageet on Friday celebrated the arrival of Basanta organising a music festival and dedicated it to the student-led mass uprising that ousted Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime on August 5 in the past year.
THE findings of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights report on the student protests and consequent mass uprising in July鈥揂ugust 2024 that it was the prime minister Sheikh Hasina, deposed on August 5 that year, ordered security forces to kill protesters and hide their bodies point to heinous crimes. The report, released in Geneva on February 12, also...
Dhaka would continue to wait for New Delhi鈥檚 response to its request for the extradition of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina who fled to India for shelter on August 5, 2024 amid a student-led mass uprising.