At least five more cases, including one on genocide charge and four on murder charges, were filed against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her aides on Wednesday night and Thursday.
Besides Hasina and her former cabinet colleagues, 29 senior journalists were also named in the genocide case.
Hasina, also the Awami League president, is now facing 82 cases filed after the fall of her government on August 5 in a mass uprising led by students.
She has been named in 68 murder cases, eight cases on genocide and crimes against humanity charges, one case for shooting at students and public, two abduction cases, one case for arson attack, one case for attempted murder and one case of attacking the motorcade of Bangladesh Nationalist Party聽 chairperson Khaleda Zia.
A complaint was filed with the International Crimes Tribunal on Thursday against 29 senior journalists, ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and 22 of her aides, accusing them of committing genocide and crimes against humanity during the recent student movement against discrimination.
This is the eighth complaint of genocide and crimes against humanity filed against Hasina after the fall of her government through a student-led mass uprising on August 5.
Md Golam Razzaq, the father of Nasib Hasan Riad 鈥攁 first-year HSC student at Mirpur BCIC College who was killed during the unrest鈥攍odged the new complaint with the ICT.
He alleged that his son was fatally shot by the police at around 6:00pm on August 5 in front of Reliance Hospital on Mirpur Road at Shymoli in Dhaka, while leading a victory procession following the fall of Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 government. Hasina had reportedly fled to India earlier that day.
The complaint named a total of 52 individuals, including 29 senior journalists, Sheikh Hasina, nine former ministers from her cabinet, two leaders of the Awami League and its affiliated bodies, seven senior police officers, two university academics, a retired Supreme Court judge, a lawyer, and an online activist.
Golam Razzaq accused the journalists of provoking the ousted prime minister during a press conference at her official residence on July 3 and through subsequent talk shows, which, he claims, incited bloodshed during the student protests.
The accused members of Hasina鈥檚 former cabinet included Obaidul Quader, Asaduzzaman Khan, Anisul Huq, Hasan Mahmud, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-Jasod president and former information minister Hasanul Haq Inu, Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury, Zunaid Ahmed Palak, Mohammad Ali Arafat, Jahangir Kabir Nanak and Dhaka North former mayor Atiqul Islam.聽聽
The accused police officers are inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, Harun-Or-Rashid, Habibur Rahman, Biplob Kumar Sarkar and National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre鈥檚 former director general Ziaul Ahsan.
The accused journalists are Nayeemul Islam Khan, Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, Farida Yasmin, Shyamal Dutta, Mozammel Babu, Nobonita Chowdhury, Subhas Singha Roy, Ahmed Jobaer, Tushar Abdullah, Saiful Alam, Naem Nizam, Abed Khan, Probhash Amin, Farzana Rupa, Shakil Ahmed, Mithila Farzana, Zayadul Ahsan Pintu, Munjurul Islam, Ashish Saikat, Manash Ghosh, Pranab Saha, Masuda Bhatti, Munni Saha, JE Mamun, Swadesh Roy, Soma Islam, Shyamal Sarker, Ajay Dash Gupta, and Ashraful Alam Khokan.
Supreme Court lawyer Gazi NH Tamim represented Razzaq in the ICT case.
A case was filed against Hasina and 88 others with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Thursday for killing Nahid Hasan Alem on July 19 in the Lakshmi Bazar area in the capital鈥檚 Old Town.
Kismat Ara, the mother of the victim filed the case with the court and the court asked the Sutrapur police to record the case.
The other accused in the case included AL general secretary Obaidul Quader, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, former foreign minister Hasan Mahmud and former Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh.
鈥業 want to see justice for my son鈥檚 killing,鈥� Kismat told 抖阴精品.
A case was filed on Thursday against 54 persons, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former law minister Anusil Huq, former housing and public works minister RAM Obaidul Muktadir Chowdhuy and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, on charge of murder, state-run news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha reported.
The case was filed against 54 named and 200-300 unnamed persons with the Brahmanbaria Sadar Model Police Station in connection with shooting to death of Zahirul Islam on March 27 in 2021 centring the visit of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi to Bangladesh.
On Wednesday night, two murder cases were filed against Hasina, Obaidul Quader, and Asaduzzaman Khan with the Sripur police station in Gazipur, 抖阴精品 correspondent in Gazipur reported.
In the two cases, 95 were named and 1,100 unnamed people were made accused in connection with murders of Zakir Hossain, 35, and Rahmat Mia, 20, on August 5.
Victim Zakir鈥檚 father Jamal Uddin and Rahmat鈥檚 father Md Monju Mia filed the two cases at about 11:30pm on Wednesday, said Sripur police station officer-in-charge KM Sohel Rana.
The case statements said that the incidents took place on the same date and in the same place but the victims were different.
