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Bangladesh has requested assistance from the United Nations quality rights bureau for an probe into the sidesplitting of Sharif Osman Hadi, a fashionable person successful the country's 2024 youth-led uprising, the authorities said Sunday.
The Bangladeshi ngo successful Geneva had sent a diplomatic enactment requesting the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to enactment a "fair, impartial and expeditious" probe into the killing, the interim government's property helping said.
"The enactment requests method and organization assistance from the UN quality rights bureau to enactment the investigation," it added.
Hadi, 32, was shot by masked assailants successful Dhaka past December and aboriginal died of his injuries astatine a infirmary successful Singapore. His decease acceptable disconnected a question of convulsive protests.
Hadi had planned to tally arsenic an autarkic campaigner successful polls taking spot connected Thursday (February 12, 2026) to find the country's archetypal elected authorities since the overthrow of erstwhile Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The interim government, which is led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, besides reiterated its committedness to ensuring "the highest standards of transparency and accountability" successful the lawsuit and pledged to place and prosecute those responsible.
Hadi was an outspoken professional of India, wherever Hasina has taken refuge since fleeing Dhaka successful the aftermath of the July 2024 uprising that overthrew her government.
His supporters hailed him arsenic a martyr and a awesome of the anti-establishment younker question reshaping Bangladesh's volatile governmental landscape.
