Habib Siddiqui

The discussion between Toby Cadman and Dr Muhammad Yunus focused on international cooperation and the court's role in Bangladesh's pursuit of justice Toby Cadman, special adviser to the ICT chief prosecutor has urged the Interim Government of Bangladesh to refer the cases of the July-August massacres to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. Cadman, who has extensive experience as an international criminal law specialist worked in Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Yemen, Syria, and Ukraine, made the recommendation when he called on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna on Thursday, according to CA press wing sources. They discussed in details how Dhaka would involve the International Criminal Court in The Hague on the issue. The discussions revolved around the potential for international cooperation and the roles and responsibilities of the court in relation to Bangladesh's quest for justice. Due to certain absconding accused being shiel...

  1 day ago Share Save Samira Hussain BBC South Asia correspondent, Dhaka BBC Bangladesh's interim leader says he felt "dazzled" when asked to take charge after long-serving prime minister Sheikh Hasina was driven from power last year. "I had no idea I'd be leading the government," Muhammad Yunus told the BBC. "I had never run a government machine before and had to get the buttons right. "Once that settled down, we started organising things," the Nobel-prize winning economist said, adding that restoring law and order and fixing the economy were priorities for the country. It's unclear if Hasina, who fled into exile in India, and her party will participate in elections Yunus hopes to hold later this year. She is wanted in Bangladesh for  alleged crimes against humanity . Sheikh Hasina: The pro-democracy icon who became an autocrat Bangladesh issues arrest warrant for ex-leader Hasina "They [the Awami League] have to decide if they want...

  Adnan Syed will remain free despite his conviction for the 1999 murder of his high school ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, a Maryland judge ruled. In a court order Thursday,   Judge Jennifer Schiffer granted Syed a sentence reduction to time served, allowing him to remain free. Syed’s conviction was vacated in 2022 and he was released and has remained out of prison since, even though the Maryland Supreme Court upheld a lower appellate court’s decision to reinstate his conviction last year. “After considering the entire record, the court concludes that the Defendant is not a danger to the public and that the interests of justice will be better served by a reduced sentence,” Schiffer wrote in the court order.   Schiffer will officially impose the reduced sentence at a hearing to be held in the next two weeks. The victory for Syed, however, is not tied to his innocence. Syed’s attorneys petitioned the court last December for the sentence reduction under Maryland’s Juvenile Rest...

  Nobel Peace Prize laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai returned to her Pakistan home village on Wednesday, 13 years after surviving an assassination attempt by militants. Yousafzai was a 15-year-old schoolgirl when Pakistan Taliban militants boarded a bus and shot her in the head in the remote Swat Valley near the Afghanistan border. She has made rare visits to the valley since, but it was the first time she returned to her childhood home in Shangla since being evacuated to the United Kingdom after the attack. "As a child, I spent every holiday in Shangla, Pakistan, playing by the river and sharing meals with my extended family," she said on X. "It was such a joy for me to return there today -- after 13 long years -- to be surrounded by the mountains, dip my hands in the cold river and laugh with my beloved cousins. This place is very dear to my heart and I hope to return again and again." Yousafzai was accompanied by her father, husband and brother fo...