Sajeeb 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 submit on X, got here two days after the interim authorities on Monday stated it has despatched a diplomatic observe to New Delhi in search of Hasina’s extradition from India.
Hasina, 77, has been dwelling in India since August 5 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 army and civil officers for “crimes towards humanity and genocide.”
“The judges and prosecutors appointed by unelected Yunus led regime to conduct farcical trial course of by Worldwide Crimes Tribunal makes it a political witch hunt that forsakes justice and marks one other ongoing onslaught to persecute Awami League management,” Wazed stated in his submit on Tuesday.
An IT entrepreneur, Wazed relies 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 prices, unlawful incarceration of 1000’s by legislation enforcement and violent assaults together with looting vandalism and arson happening with impunity on a regular basis fuelled by denial of the regime,” he added.
On Monday, India confirmed receiving the ‘observe verbale’ or diplomatic communication from the Bangladesh excessive fee in New Delhi however avoided commenting on it.
Below 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 international minister Touhid Hossain stated 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 information of defending conflict criminals, “reportedly unfold deliberate disinformation marketing campaign” towards Hasina by claiming that Interpol issued crimson 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 stated.
“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 handle to the nation on the completion of 100 days of the interim authorities, Yunus stated Bangladesh will search Hasina’s extradition. “We should guarantee justice in each killing… We will even ask India to ship again fallen autocrat Sheikh Hasina,” he had stated then.
Yunus, who assumed workplace on August 8, claimed that about 1,500 individuals, together with college students and staff, had been killed whereas 19,931 others had been wounded throughout the protest towards the Hasina authorities.
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 few months.
In latest 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 security and welfare of minorities.
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