Tribunal concludes hearing after final arguments from both sides

State-appointed defence counsel for the absconding accused concluded arguments today

All the accused are now on bail in the casee

The 1/11 government was a deliberately ill-intentioned regime, the BNP acting chair says

The prosecution yesterday played four phone call recordings between deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and three others at the International Crimes Tribunal-1. The conversations shed light on plans to suppress the July protests, including bombing demonstrators who blocked the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Narayanganj.

The document shows that Tk 46,805.32 crore of the assets are in Bangladesh, while the remaining Tk 10,451.54 crore are abroad.

Hasina least popular

The Central Intelligence Cell (CIC) of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) yesterday took control of a locker belonging to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

A Dhaka court today refused to hear a petition filed seeking permission to defend Hasina in a corruption case

Dhaka court orders three-day remand over furniture worker’s death during July uprising

Let all voices—whether popular or poisonous—be heard.

From snooping devices carried in backpacks to locate people through their phones to a massive infrastructure that can intercept even end-to-end encryption from a central command centre, the Awami League government had been on an increasingly aggressive trajectory towards building a powerful surveillance state. 

Charges were framed against 28 people, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, and daughter Saima Wazed Putul, yesterday in six cases filed over alleged irregularities in plot allocation under the Purbachal New Town project.

Bangladeshis under Hasina’s regime suffered on two levels: physical and epistemic/cognitive/perceptual.

July 14 will be remembered not just as the day students were insulted, but as the night they stopped being afraid.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday sentenced ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina to six months’ simple imprisonment for contempt of court over remarks she made during a phone conversation with a local leader, which the tribunal deemed obstruction to justice.

Former home minister Kamal and ex-IGP Mamun have also been accused

As per charges filed by Chief Prosecutor Tajul Islam at the Int’l Crimes Tribunal

The party has been fundamentally reshaped—ideologically and structurally—into a vehicle for autocratic rule.

The National Identity (NID) Registration Wing under the Election Commission has “locked” the NID cards of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and nine of her family members, effectively rendering the cards unusable for any official purpose.