Bangladesh revokes passports of Sheikh Hasina, 96 others over July killings
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Hasina, 77, has been residing in India since August 5 final yr when she fled Bangladesh following an enormous student-led protest that toppled her Awami League’s (AL) 16-year regime.
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Bangladesh’s interim authorities stated on Tuesday that it has revoked the passports of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 96 others, accusing them of involvement in enforced disappearances and the killings in July.
Hasina, 77, has been residing in India since August 5 final yr, after fleeing Bangladesh following a big student-led protest that ended her Awami League (AL) celebration’s 16-year rule.
The Bangladesh Worldwide Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has issued arrest warrants for Hasina and a number of other former Cupboard ministers, advisers, and navy and civil officers, charging them with “crimes towards humanity and genocide.”
Addressing the media, Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder stated, ”The Passports Division cancelled passports of twenty-two folks concerned in enforced disappearances, whereas passports of 75 folks, together with Sheikh Hasina, had been revoked resulting from their involvement within the July killings.”
He, nonetheless, didn’t reveal the names of the remaining people whose passports had been cancelled, the state-run BSS information company reported.
With inputs from businesses.
