Bangladesh ex-PM Hasina charged with ‘systematic attack’ as trial opens | Sheikh Hasina News

The country’s International Crimes Tribunal opens trial against the fugitive former leader for crimes against humanity.

Fugitive former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina orchestrated a “systematic attack” on protests against her government, Bangladeshi prosecutors have said at the opening of her trial over last year’s deadly crackdown.

“Upon scrutinising the evidence, we reached the conclusion that it was a coordinated, widespread and systematic attack,” Mohammad Tajul Islam, chief…