A special tribunal set up to try Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has begun proceedings by accepting the charges against humanity filed against her in connection with a mass uprising in which hundreds of students were killed last year.

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been formally charged with crimes against humanity by the country’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) over her alleged role in the violent nationwide uprising of July 2024,

Bangladesh's proceedings against Sheikh Hasina, broadcast live on national television for the first time in Bangladesh's history, mark the beginning of Hasina’s trial in absentia — nearly ten months a