BNP expressed satisfaction with the UN fact-finding report on the July-August uprising
Human rights office also finds systematic abuse by former ministers, security agency officials, AL leaders
Several senior officials gave crucial information to the UN Fact Finding Mission about Sheikh Hasina’s actions during the July uprising.
The UN has recommended prompt and independent investigations into human rights violations that took place from August 5 to 15 last year after the fall of Sheikh Hasina.
Full version of UN fact-finding report
UN estimates that "as many as 1,400 people may have been killed" in that 45-day time period, while thousands were injured
The trials to prosecute those responsible for upholding and promoting a fascist regime must meet international standards of transparency.
The government has prepared a draft to amend the International Crimes (Tribunals) 1973, keeping the provision that allows banning of a political party for 10 years for committing crimes against humanity and genocide.
Inertia at the international level has removed pressure on Myanmar and its allies and enabled impunity despite the country’s military being accused of crimes against humanity and genocide, said UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on the rights of the Rohingya in a report published on Tuesday.
Supreme Court maintains its previous ruling upholding death penalties for BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat-e-Islami's Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed for crimes against humanity during the country's 1971 War of Independence.
Prosecution pressed four charges against two war crimes suspects of Shariatpur district for their alleged involvement in crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.
Sector Commanders’ Forum-Liberation War’71 says the Amnesty International does not care about the martyrs of the liberation war rather it upholds the view of the defence in Bangladesh war crimes trial.
The Supreme Court defers till Nov 17 the hearing on the petitions filed by condemned war criminals Mojaheed and Salauddin seeking review of its judgements that upheld death penalties for their crimes against humanity in 1971.
A tribunal in Dhaka accepts three charges brought against five war crimes suspects from Noakhali.
Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and BNP’s Salauddin Quader Chowdhury have sought review of Supreme Court verdicts that upheld their death penalties for war crimes. Mojaheed has filed a 38-page review plea citing 32 grounds while the BNP leader has moved a 108-page petition.
Police arrest two war crimes accused in Moulvibazar hours after the International Crimes Tribunal-1 issued arrest warrant for five suspects.
International Crimes Tribunal-1 frames seven specific charges against five suspected Razakars for their alleged involvement in crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.
A tribunal has ordered prosecution to submit formal charges against 19 war crime suspects from Cox’s Bazar within November 23.
Condemned war criminal Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed hopes that he will get "justice" after he seeks review of the Supreme Court ruling that upheld his death penalty.
