Bangladeshi police have been criticised for their deadly crackdown on anti-government protests, in which more than 450 people have been killed, including 42 police officers.
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A court in Bangladesh on Tuesday ordered an investigation into ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and six senior government officials over the killing of a man during protests in July.
Lawyer Mamun Mia had filed a petition to this effect with the court in the capital Dhaka, which asked the police to open an investigation. “against the accused persons”he said. “A petition has been filed against Sheikh Hasina and six others” politicians or police officers, said Mamun Mia, who represents a Bangladeshi man who brought the case to the country’s courts.
They are accused of being responsible for the death of a grocery store owner shot dead on July 19 by Bangladeshi police during the deadly crackdown on anti-government protests. According to the Bangladeshi daily Daily StarThe case was brought to court by Amir Hamza Shatil, a resident of the neighborhood where the shooting took place.
Bangladesh police have been criticized for a deadly crackdown on anti-government protests that have killed more than 450 people, including 42 police officers. Economist Muhammad Yunus, 84, took over a caretaker government on Thursday after Sheikh Hasina, 76, fled to India after 15 years in power and before protesters stormed her official residence in Dhaka.
