Overview
- Judges delivered a multi-part, roughly 400‑page verdict that convicted the former prime minister of crimes against humanity tied to the July–August 2024 protests, citing alleged orders for lethal force including helicopter and drone strikes.
- Dhaka police announced shoot-on-sight directives against arsonists and bomb-throwers as BGB and other forces fanned out across the capital following clashes and crude bomb attacks reported at multiple locations.
- Authorities reported tense confrontations near Dhanmondi 32, where security was reinforced around the Bangabandhu museum, and police used sound grenades to disperse rival groups.
- Bangladesh’s foreign ministry formally asked New Delhi to hand over Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan under the 2013 extradition agreement, calling sheltering them hostile and a denial of justice.
- Analysts and former diplomats criticized the tribunal as politically driven and questioned casualty figures and evidence, while separate regional probes and attacks continued, including India’s Red Fort VBIED case, the accidental Nowgam forensic blast that killed nine, and a new claim by BRG after a Jaffar Express rail attack in Balochistan.