The tribunal also fixed 4 November for the prosecution’s opening statement and recording of witness testimony.
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT). Photo: Courtesy
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The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT). Photo: Courtesy
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has ordered the trial of 26 accused over the killings of 11 people, including Mir Mahfuzur Rahman Mugdho, in Uttara during the July uprising.
The accused include former lawmaker Habib Hasan and former Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner Habibur Rahman.
The tribunal also fixed 4 November for the prosecution’s opening statement and recording of witness testimony.
International Crimes Tribunal-2 passed the order today (11 October).
Earlier, on 9 September, Prosecutor Gazi MH Tamim appeared for the prosecution, while lawyer M Liton Ahmed represented the accused. State-appointed lawyers Md Amir Hossain and M Hasan Imam appeared for the absconding accused.
Of the 26 accused in the case, eight, including former additional superintendent of police Mirza Salauddin, are in jail.
The remaining 18, including former MP Habib Hasan, former DMP commissioner Habibur Rahman and former Uttara Division deputy commissioner Kazi Ashraful Azim, are absconding.
According to the prosecution’s first charge, seven people, including Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) MBA student Mir Mahfuzur Rahman Mugdho, were killed on 18 July 2024 when indiscriminate firing was carried out to suppress the anti-discrimination student-people’s movement on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway and surrounding areas in Uttara.
The charge states that Uber driver Mokhlesur Rahman alias Durjoy was run over by a police APC and killed, after which his body was dumped in the Turag River in an alleged attempt to conceal it.
The prosecution also alleged that five people, including Mehedi Hasan, were shot and critically injured in an attempt to kill them during the same incident.
According to the second charge, four more people, including Ridwan Sharif Riad Joy, were killed on 19 July after protesters in the same area were again subjected to indiscriminate firing.
The prosecution further alleged that Raisul Rahman Ratul was shot and critically injured in an attempt to kill him.
In both charges, the prosecution described the incidents as crimes against humanity committed in a planned, widespread and systematic manner.
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