Bangladesh’s interim authorities on Tuesday stated it has revoked the passport of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 96 others over their alleged involvement in enforced disappearances and the July killings.
Hasina, 77, has been residing in India since August 5 final 12 months when she fled Bangladesh following an enormous student-led protest that toppled her Awami League’s (AL) 16-year regime.
Bangladesh’s Worldwide Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has issued arrest warrants for Hasina and several other former Cupboard ministers, advisers, and navy and civil officers for “crimes in opposition to humanity and genocide”.
Addressing a press briefing right here, Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder stated, “The Passports Division cancelled passports of 22 individuals concerned in enforced disappearances, whereas passports of 75 individuals, together with Sheikh Hasina, have been revoked attributable to their involvement within the July killings.”
He, nonetheless, didn’t reveal the names of the remaining people whose passports have been cancelled, the state-run BSS information company reported.
