Pakistan, July 11 -- A special tribunal on Thursday indicted Bangladesh's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by accepting charges of crimes against humanity filed against her in connection with a mass uprising in which hundreds of students were killed last year.
A three-member panel, headed by Justice Golam Mortuza Mozumder, indicted Hasina, former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan and former police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun on five charges. Hasina and Khan are being tried in absentia.
The tribunal opened the trial on June. 5 and had asked Hasina to appear before it. Authorities published newspaper advertisements asking Hasina, who has been in exile in India, and Khan to appear before the tribunal.
Hasina has been in exile since Au...