DHAKA: A father who lost his schoolboy son in police firing on Aug 5 moved Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) against ex-PM Sheikh Hasina and 8 others Wednesday, accusing them of crimes against humanity and genocide between July 15 and the day Class 9 student Alif Ahmed Siam was fatally wounded.
Supreme Court lawyer Gazi MH Tanim filed the complaint around 1.30pm on behalf of Bulbul Kabir, the bereaved father.Alif died on Aug 7, two days after he was shot by police at Savar in Dhaka district.
Besides Hasina, the complaint names former cabinet ministers Obaidul Quader and Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal; ex-state ministers Zunaid Ahmed Palak and Mohammad Ali Arafat; former IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun; erstwhile detective branch chief Harun Or Rashid; ex-Dhaka Metropolitan police commissioner Habibur Rahman; ex-RAB director general Harun Ar Rashid.
ICT came into being after Bangladesh parliament brought the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act, 1973, providing for the detention, prosecution and punishment of people responsible for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes under international law. The tribunal has the power to try and punish any individual or groups of individuals or organisations embroiled in such acts.
Meanwhile, Hasina’s ex-law minister Anisul Huq and adviser Salman F Rahman, both arrested in a murder case, were produced in court Wednesday and remanded in custody for 10 days. The murder case was filed after a shop employee was killed in a clash on July 16 during protests. A separate case was filed over a student’s death in the same clash.
Supreme Court lawyer Gazi MH Tanim filed the complaint around 1.30pm on behalf of Bulbul Kabir, the bereaved father.Alif died on Aug 7, two days after he was shot by police at Savar in Dhaka district.
Besides Hasina, the complaint names former cabinet ministers Obaidul Quader and Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal; ex-state ministers Zunaid Ahmed Palak and Mohammad Ali Arafat; former IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun; erstwhile detective branch chief Harun Or Rashid; ex-Dhaka Metropolitan police commissioner Habibur Rahman; ex-RAB director general Harun Ar Rashid.
ICT came into being after Bangladesh parliament brought the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act, 1973, providing for the detention, prosecution and punishment of people responsible for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes under international law. The tribunal has the power to try and punish any individual or groups of individuals or organisations embroiled in such acts.
Meanwhile, Hasina’s ex-law minister Anisul Huq and adviser Salman F Rahman, both arrested in a murder case, were produced in court Wednesday and remanded in custody for 10 days. The murder case was filed after a shop employee was killed in a clash on July 16 during protests. A separate case was filed over a student’s death in the same clash.