Sanjeeb Wazed, son of deposed Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina, has accused the Muhammad Yunus led interim authorities of “weaponising the judiciary” for finishing up a “political witch hunt” towards the Awami League management.
Wazed’s allegations, as an extended put up on X, got here two days after the interim authorities on Monday mentioned it has despatched a diplomatic word to New Delhi searching for Hasina’s extradition from India.
Hasina, 77, has been dwelling in India since August 5 when she fled Bangladesh following a large 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 a number of other former Cupboard ministers, advisers, and army and civil officers for “crimes towards humanity and genocide.”
“The judges and prosecutors appointed by the unelected Yunus led regime to conduct farcical trial course of by means of Worldwide Crimes Tribunal makes it a political witch hunt that forsakes justice and marks one other ongoing onslaught to persecute Awami League management,” Wazed mentioned in his put up on Tuesday.
An IT entrepreneur, Wazed is predicated within the US and has been an ICT adviser in Hasina’s authorities.
“The kangaroo tribunal and subsequent request for extradition comes whereas lots of of leaders and activists are extrajudicially killed, framing of outrageous homicide costs, unlawful incarceration of 1000’s by legislation enforcement and violent assaults together with looting vandalism and arson occurring with impunity on a regular basis fuelled by denial of the regime,” he added.
On Monday, India confirmed receiving the ‘word verbale’ or diplomatic communication from the Bangladesh excessive fee in New Delhi however shunned commenting on it.
Underneath the provisions of the India-Bangladesh extradition treaty, extradition could also be refused if the offence is certainly one of a “political character.”
Bangladesh’s de facto overseas minister Touhid Hossain mentioned Dhaka needs Hasina again to face the judicial course of.
Wazed additional accused that the chief prosecutor of ICT Tribunal Tajul Islam appointed by Yunus regime on December 22, regardless of confirmed data of defending battle criminals, “reportedly unfold deliberate disinformation marketing campaign” towards Hasina by claiming that Interpol issued pink discover towards her, and termed it as “a determined bid to extradite her and maintain farcical trial to serve the curiosity of Dr Yunus.”
“However the very prosecutor later altered his assertion following media publicity of the outright lie and now formally despatched a request to India for the extradition,” Hasina’s son mentioned.
“We reiterate our place that each single incident of human rights violation between July and August must be investigated in a free and honest method however the Yunus led regime weaponised the judiciary, and we specific no confidence within the justice system,” he alleged.
Final month, in an tackle to the nation on the completion of 100 days of the interim authorities, Yunus mentioned Bangladesh will search Hasina’s extradition. “We should guarantee justice in each killing… We may also ask India to ship again fallen autocrat Sheikh Hasina,” he had mentioned then.
Yunus, who assumed workplace on August 8, claimed that about 1,500 folks, together with college students and employees, have been killed whereas 19,931 others have been wounded through the protest towards the Hasina authorities.
Afterward Tuesday evening, Wazed, in one other put up on X, termed as “bogus” the corruption allegations made (by the Bangladesh authorities) towards him and his household.
“Now we have by no means been concerned in or made cash from any authorities initiatives,” he mentioned and added, “It’s not doable to siphon billions of {dollars} from a USD 10 billion mission,” he mentioned.
His reference was to the investigation launched by Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Fee (ACC) towards Hasina and her household in reference to the allegations of embezzlement of USD 5 billion within the Rooppur nuclear energy plant (NPP).
Indian firms are collaborating within the building of Bangladesh’s first NPP, being constructed by Rosatom, Russia’s state-run company, 160 km west of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka.
Rosatom has already refuted the “provocative statements” which have appeared within the media in reference to the Rooppur NPP mission.
The event got here two days after the Excessive Court docket requested questions on ACC’s inaction over the alleged switch of USD 5 billion from the Rooppur NPP mission to a Malaysian financial institution by Hasina, Wazed, and another particular person shouldn’t be declared unlawful.
Wazed, in his put up on X, additional mentioned: “Claiming transactions are ‘linked’ to us is a option to make false allegations. Both the transactions come to us or they do not. I problem the ACC to publish these so-called transactions and present they arrive to us.”
“The illegitimate #Yunus regime with the #terrorist college students are attempting to divert consideration from their failure to run the nation, the overall lack of legislation and order, financial failure, human rights, democracy and political vendetta,” he added in his put up on X.
India has expressed concern as there have been a spate of assaults on minorities together with on the Hindu neighborhood in Bangladesh in the previous couple of months.
In current weeks, Hasina has accused the Yunus-led interim authorities of perpetrating “genocide” and failing to guard minorities, particularly Hindus, since her ouster.
Overseas Secretary Vikram Misri visited Dhaka two weeks again throughout which he conveyed to the Bangladeshi aspect India’s considerations, particularly these associated to the protection and welfare of minorities.
