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Bangladesh: Court opens murder case against ousted PM
A court in Bangladesh has initiated a murder investigation against the ousted ex-premier Sheikh Hasina and six senior figures from her administration on Tuesday, following the police killing of a man during civil unrest last month.
Hasina, 76, fled by helicopter to neighbouring India a week ago, where she remains, as protesters flooded the streets of Dhaka, bringing her iron-fisted rule to a dramatic end.
Over 450 people were killed during the weeks of unrest leading up to her removal from power.
“A case has been filed against Sheikh Hasina and six others,” said Mamun Mia, a lawyer who brought the case on behalf of a private citizen.
He added that the Dhaka Metropolitan Court had ordered the police to accept “the murder case against the accused persons,” the first step in a criminal investigation under Bangladeshi law.