🇧🇩 Today, our article, written by David Bergman, focuses on *Bangladesh.* Six months after the prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, fled the country, the new interim government has started the process of seeking accountability against politicians and security force officials accused of crimes against humanity and murders during the mass protests of summer 2024. The total number of people killed this period is estimated to be 1.400 by a UN report. There were reasonable grounds to believe that the “former government systematically engaged in serious human rights violations, including hundreds of extrajudicial killings”, according to the UN. Families of those killed by law enforcement authorities started to file First Information Reports (FIRs) at police stations, often listing hundreds of people as allegedly responsible for the “murder” of their relatives. According to the OHCHR report, 1,181 FIRs were lodged with the police and are being investigated, listing a total of 98,137 accused, including the names of 25,033 political party leaders. This raised concerns on the politicization of the process. The government’s decision to appoint a new Chief Prosecutor, Muhammad Tajul Islam, to the International Crimes Tribunal for Bangladesh (ICT-BD) to prosecute those accused of the killings was also criticized. The ICT-BD prosecutor’s office has received 278 complaints from victims. 18 criminal cases were filed with the tribunal accusing a total of 119 people, all of whom have had arrest warrants issued against them. 39 of these accused are in detention, but most suspects are thought to have fled the country. Hasina’s extradition from India has been requested but India is unlikely to accept it. Following the publication of a report by a new Commission of inquiry on disappeared persons, the Chief Prosecutor filed a case alleging that 12 people, including the former prime minister, her then defence adviser, Major General Tarique Ahmed Siddique, and the former Inspector General of Police, Benazir Ahmed, committed crimes against humanity in their involvement with disappearances of hundreds of people. 👉 https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/141852-second-life-bangladesh-international-crimes-tribunal.html See you tomorrow for a new post. In the meantime, you can support Justice Info by sharing our articles.