Probe report filed against Hasina in 'genocide' case

The Investigation Agency of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has submitted a probe report in a case over the mass killings during the July Uprising against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and two others.

The report was handed over to the tribunal's prosecution office on Sunday, according to ICT Prosecutor MH Tamim.

On Oct 17, 2024, the ICT had issued an arrest warrant against Hasina, who faces "genocide" charges stemming from her government’s violent crackdown on the Anti-discrimination Student Movement. On the same day, the tribunal also issued arrest warrants against 45 others in a separate case involving similar charges.

The latest investigation report includes two additional names alongside Hasina -- former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan and former inspector general of police Abdullah Al-Mamun.

The ICT was originally set up in 2010 by the Awami League government to try war crimes committed during Bangladesh’s Liberation War. Now, the interim government has moved to prosecute leaders of the former ruling party, treating the use of lethal force to suppress last year's mass protests as acts of genocide.