Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal Wednesday issued arrest warrants against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and several others on charges of crimes against humanity in alleged cases of enforced disappearances during her Awami League regime.

A three-member International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) bench, led by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder, took cognisance of the charges filed in two separate cases, according to media reports.

The cases accuse Hasina and 29 others of overseeing the detention, torture and disappearance of political opponents at secret facilities operated by elite security agencies, the bdnews24 news portal reported.

The ICT issued arrest warrants against Hasina and others implicated in the cases and set October 22 as the date to produce the accused before the

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