Key Highlights
- The judgment in the case will be pronounced on January 26,” chairman of the three-judge panel Justice Golam Mortuza Mozumder said.
- The tribunal earlier fixed January 20 for delivering the verdict against Dhaka police’s then commissioner Habibur Rahman, former joint commissioner Sudip Kumar Chakraborty and six others while four accused, including the two officers, were tried in absentia.
- The 2024 protests, dubbed ‘July Uprising’, toppled then prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who was sentenced to death alongside former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on November 17 after their trial in absentia on the identical charges of crimes against humanity.
- Trials of several ministers in the past government and leaders of Hasina’s now disbanded Awami League are underway in the ICT-BD.
- The tribunal’s chief prosecutor Tajul Islam, meanwhile, said Bangladesh’s interim government of Muhammad Yunus decided not to renew the contract of international criminal law expert Toby Cadman as “special adviser” to the prosecution team amid reports that the British lawyer has resigned.
