[🇧🇩] The International Crimes Tribunal-1----Charging Hasina and her accomplices

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New chief prosecutor to review all ICT cases, warns of action in case of irregularities
Staff Correspondent 24 February, 2026, 20:35

The new chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal, Md Aminul Islam, said on Tuesday that he would scrutinise all formal charges related to cases of crimes against humanity committed during the July 2024 mass uprising.

Of the formal charges in 24 cases, 21 are currently under trial at two International Crimes Tribunals.

Aminul said that he had already instructed the prosecutors to submit all case files to examine whether investigations and charges were properly conducted and warned that legal action would be taken if any irregularities were found.

‘The prosecution will target criminals and will not harass innocent people for political reasons,’ Aminul told reporters after a meeting with the prosecution team at his office on the ICT compound in the capital.

He said that he would also review concluded cases and ensure transparency and speedy disposal of trials in line with the aspirations of the victims of the July movement.

He warned of stern action against any prosecutor or tribunal official involved in corruption during his tenure.

Responding to corruption allegations over the lenient five-year jail term of former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun and the pardon of former Ashulia police sub-inspector Sheikh Afzalul Haque, the chief prosecutor said that he was not involved in those trials but would take action if irregularities could be detected.

ICT prosecutor Sultan Mahmood had earlier alleged corruption against outgoing chief prosecutor Muhammad Tajul Islam and prosecutor Gazi Monawar Hossain Tamim over the pardon of Afzalul Haque in a crimes against humanity case related to the killing of seven protesters in Ashulia during the 2024 uprising, and the lesser punishment of Mamun in the crime against human case involving depose prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan. Both were sentenced to death for superior command responsibility to July crackdown.

Tajul Islam rejected the allegations in a written statement, calling them baseless and unsupported by evidence.

‘They are devoid of any substance. No one can produce any evidence in support of these unfounded allegations of corruption against me,’ he said.​

 

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Charges pressed against Hasina, 25 others

The police have submitted a charge sheet against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 25 others in the case filed over the killing of 24-year-old Abuzar Sheikh in the capital’s Gulshan area during the 2024 July mass uprising.

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Charges pressed against Hasina, 25 others
Staff Correspondent 28 February, 2026, 00:20

Sheikh Hasina | File photo

The police have submitted a charge sheet against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 25 others in the case filed over the killing of 24-year-old Abuzar Sheikh in the capital’s Gulshan area during the 2024 July mass uprising.

Sub-inspector Israil Hossain of the Anti-Terrorism Unit of the police submitted the charge sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Dhaka on February 18.

Confirming the submission of the charge sheet, Gulshan police station’s general recording officer SI Md Moktar Hossain on Friday said that the charge sheet would be presented before the court tomorrow for the next course of action.’

Moktar also said that the issuance of arrest warrants for the accused in the case would also be sought.

The other prominent accused include former road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader, also Awami League general secretary, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former textiles and jute minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak, former state minister for information and broadcasting

Mohammad A Arafat, former MP Mirza Azam and former Appellate Division justice Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik.

Local AL leaders and activists allegedly opened fire on a procession of students and public in the evening of July 19, 2024 in front of the Baridhara General Hospital on Pragati Sarani in the capital.

Abuzar received bullet injury and was first taken to Evercare Hospital before being transferred to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital where he died on July 27.

On November 16, 2024, the victim’s mother Chhobi Khatun filed a murder case with the Gulshan police station over the incident.

Several charge sheets, including murders and crimes against humanity, were pressed against Hasina and others in the International Crimes Tribunal.

On November 6, the police submitted a charge sheet to the Sirajganj Chief Judicial Magistrate Court over the killing of three Bangladesh Nationalist Party activists during the 2024 uprising.

In the final week of October, Savar model thana police submitted a charge sheet in Dhaka Chief Judicial Magistrate Court against 114 people, including Sheikh Hasina, Obaidul Quader, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, Enamur Rahman, and Qamrul Islam, as accused in the case filed over the brutal killing of fish trader Nabi Nur Morol.

The Awami League-led authoritarian government was ousted on August 5, 2024 amid a student-led mass uprising, when prime minister and AL president Sheikh Hasina fled to India and took shelter there.​

 

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Ex-army chief cross-examined in ICT

Former army chief Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan on Sunday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that he had heard allegations of corruption against army members deputed to mega development projects during the Awami League regime.

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Ex-army chief cross-examined in ICT

I heard graft claims against army men in AL mega projects: Iqbal Karim

Staff Correspondent 01 March, 2026, 21:34

Former army chief Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan on Sunday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that he had heard allegations of corruption against army members deputed to mega development projects during the Awami League regime.

Iqbal, who served as army chief from 2012 to 2015, said that the army members involved in corruption could not be identified as the projects were under government control, not under his direct command.

He made the remarks during cross-examination by defence counsel Aminul Ghani Tittu in a crimes against humanity case against detained retired major general Ziaul Ahsan over allegations of enforced disappearances during the Awami League regime.

The two-judge tribunal, chaired by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder, later adjourned the hearing as his cross-examination remained incomplete.

Iqbal said that army members were posted to national projects on deputation following instructions from higher authorities. The projects included the Padma Bridge, the Dhaka–Chattogram highway and the Dhaka–Mymensingh highway, which were ongoing during his tenure.

He said that no inquiry was conducted into the killing of three local residents and the torching of an army vehicle during clashes over land acquisition for the Jolshiri Abashon project in Rupganj of Narayanganj, although he had sought an investigation as he was the project chief.

He denied allegations that land for the project was acquired at low prices and that protesting villagers were cracked down on after being labelled BNP activists.

Iqbal alleged that Ziaul Ahsan received a plot in the project area and constructed a high-rise building there.

He said that military intelligence informed him about incidents of enforced disappearances and killings, but could not provide specific details.

Iqbal also said that he could not take action against Major Imran, accused of killing a man over the alleged rape of a Radisson Blu Dhaka Water Garden employee, or against the then Lieutenant Colonel Kamrul over the killing of three people in a reported crossfire, as there was no evidence to support the claims despite their alleged admissions.

He denied defence suggestions that he had promoted or favoured Lieutenant Colonel Karmul and Major Imran and deputed them to posts of their choice.

He alleged that the defence sought to tarnish his professional reputation during the cross-examination.

Iqbal denied that he had any personal enmity with Ziaul Ahsan over the 2014 Narayanganj seven-murder case, rejecting claims that Ziaul had defied his alleged influence during the RAB probe.

He also denied allegations that he had asked Ziaul to divert an investigation into the alleged looting of Tk 2 crore and Tk 7,000 by then lieutenant colonel Md Zulfikar Ali Majumder during an operation in Chattogram’s Anwara.

Iqbal said that he did not investigate the alleged presence of India’s intelligence agency RAW at the DGFI headquarters inside Dhaka Cantonment, though he acknowledged that the army chief exercises partial administrative control over the DGFI.

He further denied the suggestion that BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia was evicted from former president Ziaur Rahman’s cantonment residence during his tenure as quartermaster general, saying that he was abroad at the time.

Iqbal said that he currently serves as chairman of Winnie Vision Power Limited but denied media reports describing him as the company’s owner.

He also rejected allegations that he amassed wealth during the tenure of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina until August 5, 2024.

Finally, he denied claims that he was biased toward two brigadiers, Fazal and Jaglul Ahsan, both of whom allegedly misguided him about Ziaul Ahsan without a proper inquiry into the two brigadiers.​