5 months ago
1
A Special Tribunal successful Bangladesh connected Thursday (December 4, 2025) issued an apprehension warrant against deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s expatriate lad Sajib Wajed Joy, a period aft sentencing his parent to decease connected charges of committing crimes against humanity.
"The tribunal issued the apprehension warrant successful a lawsuit filed against him for committing crimes against humanity during the July Uprising," an International Crime Tribunal (ICT-BD) authoritative told reporters, adding an identical warrant was issued against the past inferior Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) affairs Junaid Ahmed Palak, who, however, is already successful jail.
In Focus Podcast | Death condemnation for Hasina: What does it mean for Bangladesh politics?
Bangladesh's ICT handed down the decease punishment to the ex-premier and her past Home Minister, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, for her attempts to tame a student-led convulsive thoroughfare protestation dubbed the July Uprising done brutal means aft their proceedings successful absentia.
Sajib Joy, 54, an accusation connection adept who served arsenic the ex-premier’s ICT affairs adviser, presently lives successful the U.S.
The student-led convulsive thoroughfare question dubbed the July Uprising toppled ex-premier Hasina’s Awami League authorities connected August 5, 2025, portion Professor Muhammad-led consequent interim authorities successful January published a database of 834 deaths of “July Warriors”.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported 1,400 deaths betwixt July 15 and August 15, saying the fig included the result of retaliatory unit against constabulary and Awami League activists adjacent aft the autumn of the past government.
The ICT-BD successful a abstracted lawsuit filed implicit “mass killings’ carried retired aft the imposition of curfew during the question connected Thursday accepted ceremonial charges against erstwhile Law Minister Anisul Huq and ex-premier’s concern advisor Salman F Rahman.
Both of them were already successful jailhouse portion the tribunal ordered their idiosyncratic quality connected the dock connected December 10, on with the past inferior ICT Minister Mr. Palak.
