Sheikh Hasina (File photo) Report by Ahsan TasnimDHAKA: The charge of “crimes against humanity” is inapplicable to former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina as the cases she is being tried for are part of a political conflict and not a war, her state-appointed lawyer argued on Monday in the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), which has set […]
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s attorney general Md Asaduzzaman on Saturday said those convicted by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) are ineligible to participate in elections, days after the tribunal sentenced Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina to six months imprisonment for contempt of court.Asaduzzaman remarks come ahead of the next year’s national polls, pending since the fall of […]
Bangladesh’s interim government on Saturday banned the Awami League, the party once led by deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.The decision was taken under the country’s anti-terrorism law and is expected to be formalised through a gazette notification on the next working day.The statement from Muhammad Yunus’s office described the action as a “statement of the […]
