Bangladesh: Sheikh Hasina’s son accuses Yunus government of ‘political witch hunt’
The interim leader of the country was ‘weaponising the judiciary’, alleged Sajeeb Wazed a day after Dhaka stated it had sought Hasina’s extradition.
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Sajeeb Wazed, son of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, on Tuesday accused the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government in the country of “weaponising the judiciary” for carrying out a “political witch hunt” against leaders of the Awami League.
“The judges and prosecutors appointed by unelected Yunus led regime to conduct farcical trial process through International Crimes Tribunal makes it a political witch hunt that forsakes justice and marks another ongoing onslaught to persecute Awami League leadership,” Wazed said in a social media post.
His statement came a day after Bangladesh’s interim government said that it has sent a note verbale, or an unsigned diplomatic communique, to India formally seeking Hasina’s extradition.
Hasina was ousted from power and forced to flee to India on August 5 amid widespread student-led protests against her Awami League government. She had been the prime minister of Bangladesh for 16 years.
Nobel laureate economist Muhammad Yunus took over as the head of Bangladesh’s interim government on August 8.
On August 15, the Dhaka Tribune reported that Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal was investigating Hasina on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in connection with the violent anti-government protests between July 15 and August 5.
Nine other prominent leaders of Hasina’s Awami League party were also being investigated, including its general secretary and former road transport minister...
