Delhi, 1 June (H.S.): Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is on trial for orchestrating a systematic attack on protests against her government, as prosecutors allege she coordinated a violent crackdown during the 2024 student-led uprising. Chief prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam stated that evidence shows a widespread attack involving law enforcement and her party members to suppress dissent, leading to charges of “abetment, incitement, complicity, facilitation, conspiracy, and failure to prevent mass murder.”

The UN reported nearly 1,400 deaths in Bangladesh during this brutal campaign. Hasina, currently in self-imposed exile in India, has dismissed the allegations as politically motivated. She fled to New Delhi in August 2024 after protests ended her long rule marked by numerous human rights violations and has defied an arrest warrant and extradition order to avoid returning to Dhaka.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Jun Sarkar