A special court in Bangladesh issued arrest warrants on Thursday for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others, including her close aides, on charges of crimes against humanity during a student-led uprising in July and August that forced her to flee the country, a prosecutor said.
Prosecutor B.M. Sultan Mahmud said the Dhaka-based International Crimes Tribunal under Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, the country’s interim leader, issued the arrest warrants in response to two petitions submitted by the prosecution.
Hasina fled the country to India on August 5 after weeks of violent protests during which more than 750 people were killed and thousands more hurt. Prosecutors said in the petitions that Hasina, her close aides, and security agencies were responsible for killing the protesters and others.
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