Bangladesh: Govt revokes Sheikh Hasina’s passport, India extends visa

Addressing a press briefing in Dhaka, chief adviser Muhammad Yunus’s deputy press secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder mentioned, “The passports division cancelled the passports of twenty-two individuals concerned in enforced disappearances, whereas passports of 75 individuals, together with Sheikh Hasina, had been revoked attributable to their involvement within the July killings.”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.

On 6 January, the ICT issued arrest warrants in opposition to Hasina and 11 others, together with former navy generals and an ex-police chief, for his or her alleged position in incidents of enforced disappearances.

This was the second arrest warrant by the ICT in opposition to Hasina, and the tribunal has up to now recorded three instances in opposition to her. “Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mojumdar, chairman of the tribunal, issued the arrest warrant after listening to a prosecution plea,” an ICT official mentioned.

The inspector-general of police was ordered to arrest the 12 individuals, together with Hasina, and produce them earlier than the tribunal on 12 February within the case filed over complaints of enforced disappearances of a number of hundred individuals.

The deposed premier’s then-defence adviser Main-Common (retd) Tarique Ahmed Siddique and former IGP Benazir Ahmed are amongst these named within the case. Whereas Siddique is at present underneath custody, Ahmed is believed to be on the run.