Thousands march in Bangladesh calling for ousted prime minister's prosecution

Thousands march in Bangladesh calling for prosecution of overthrown PM

Ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s gov’t is accused of killing hundreds of protesters last summer.

Hundreds of people died in the uprising that ousted her from power. Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is to be held accountable for this, in some cases also for crimes against humanity.

Bangladeshis rally in Dhaka to mark student uprising, Sheikh Hasina's ouster

Thousands of Bangladeshis rallied at a ‘March for Unity’ in the capital Dhaka on Tuesday to mark the student-led uprising five months ago that led to the ouster of longstanding prime minister Sheikh Hasina and remember the more than 1,000 killed in the violence. The Students Against Discrimination (SAD) group that led the protests, dropped a plan to call for changes to the country’s 1972 constitution at the rally, after the interim government an…

Thousands march in Bangladesh calling for ousted prime minister's prosecution

Ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled to India on Aug. 5 after weeks of violence in which authorities say hundreds of people were killed and thousands more injured on orders of her government

Thousands march in Bangladesh calling for the ousted prime minister’s prosecution

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Thousands of people led by students rallied in Bangladesh’s capital on Tuesday, calling for the prosecution of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and those responsible for hundreds of deaths in a mass uprising against her government in July. The Anti-Discrimination Student Movement organized the “March for Unity” at the Central Shaheed Minar, a national monument in Dhaka. Protesters chanted slogans calling for Hasina’s …

Thousands march in Bangladesh to mark student-led uprising that ousted PM Hasina

“My son Shahriar, a ninth-grade student, was killed [during the protests]. Our tears will never stop, this pain will never end," protester tells rally.