Dhaka
\nA Bangladeshi court on Thursday ordered an arrest warrant for exiled ex-leader Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India in August after she was toppled from power by a student-led revolution.
\n\u201cThe court has [\u2026] ordered the arrest of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and to produce her in court on November 18,\u201d Mohammad Tajul Islam, chief prosecutor of Bangladesh\u2019s International Crimes Tribunal, told reporters on Thursday.
\nHasina\u2019s 15-year rule saw widespread human rights abuses, including the mass detention and extrajudicial killings of her political opponents.
\n\u201cSheikh Hasina was at the helm of those who committed massacres, killings and crimes against humanity in July to August\u201d, Islam said, calling it a \u201cremarkable day\u201d.
\nHasina, 77, has not been seen in public since fleeing Bangladesh, and her last official whereabouts are a military airbase near India\u2019s capital New Delhi.
\nHer presence in India has infuriated Bangladesh.
\nDhaka has revoked her diplomatic passport, and the countries have a bilateral extradition treaty which would permit her return to face criminal trial.
\nA clause in the treaty, however, says extradition might be refused if the offence is of a \u201cpolitical character\u201d.
\nHasina\u2019s government created the deeply contentious ICT in 2010 to probe atrocities during the 1971 independence.
\nThe United Nations and rights groups criticised its procedural shortcomings, and it became widely seen as a means for Hasina to eliminate political opponents.
\nSeveral cases accusing Hasina of orchestrating the \u201cmass murder\u201d of protesters are being probed by the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dhaka A Bangladeshi court on Thursday ordered an arrest warrant for exiled ex-leader Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India in August after she was toppled from power by a student-led revolution. \u201cThe court has [\u2026] ordered the arrest of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and to produce her in court on November 18,\u201d Mohammad Tajul […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-437967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n