Obaidul Quader and six senior Awami League leaders were convicted over violence linked to the 2024 student-led uprising….reports Asian Lite News Desk
Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal has sentenced seven senior Awami League leaders, including party General Secretary Obaidul Quader, to death for crimes against humanity linked to the student-led uprising in 2024.
Tribunal-2, headed by Justice Nazrul Islam Chowdhury, delivered the verdict on Tuesday.
Those sentenced to death alongside Quader are Awami League Joint General Secretary Bahauddin Nasim, former State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat, Jubo League President Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash and its General Secretary Mainul Hossain Khan Nikhil, and Chhatra League President Saddam Hossain and General Secretary Sheikh Wali Asif Enan.
The tribunal found the seven guilty of charges including murder, incitement to violence and incitement to murder in connection with the student-led protests against the government of then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during July and August 2024.
The court said the charges had been established and imposed the death penalty on the accused.
The verdict follows a previous ruling by International Crimes Tribunal-1, which sentenced Hasina to death in 2025 after finding her guilty of crimes against humanity committed during the uprising.
The tribunal found Hasina guilty on all five charges brought against her, including incitement, failure to prevent or punish atrocities and ordering the use of drones, helicopters and lethal weapons against protesters.
Former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and former police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun were also accused alongside Hasina in the case.
Hasina, 78, fled to India on August 5, 2024, after her government fell amid a mass uprising led by students.
The tribunal had earlier indicted Hasina, Kamal and Mamun on five charges, including incitement, ordering the killing of protesters, superior command responsibility and joint criminal enterprise.
The latest verdicts mark another major development in Bangladesh’s legal reckoning over the violence surrounding the 2024 uprising and have drawn international attention to the tribunal’s proceedings.
