Overview

• An International Crimes Tribunal bench led by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder approved charges and issued warrants for Sheikh Hasina and several former security officials.
• Prosecutors filed two cases alleging enforced disappearances and torture tied to secret facilities run by the Rapid Action Battalion’s Task Force for Interrogation and the DGFI’s Joint Interrogation Cell.
• The filings name Hasina and her former security adviser Tarique Ahmed Siddique, with five charges in each case and additional accused from RAB and DGFI.
• Separate formal charges target BGB Lt Col Redwan Ahmed and three others over alleged killings in Dhaka’s Rampura area during the July 2024 unrest.
• The ICT’s investigative agency has also opened a formal probe into the Awami League as a political organisation, appointing an investigation officer following an NDM complaint filed in October 2024, while some media and analysts describe the broader actions as a crackdown by the Yunus-led interim government.