Dhaka, July 7, 2025 (AFP) - Bangladesh lawyers seek to quash ex-PM's murder trial

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2025-07-07

State-appointed defence lawyers sought on Monday to throw out the charges against Bangladesh's convicted ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina in her crimes against humanity trial. Up to 1,400 people were killed between July and August last year, according to the United Nations, when Hasina's government ordered a crackdown on protesters in a failed bid to cling to power. Hasina, 77, fled to India at the culmination of the student-led uprising in August......

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