Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is heading the caretaker administration in Bangladesh (File)
Dhaka:
Bangladesh’s interim authorities revoked the diplomatic passport of ousted premier Sheikh Hasina on Thursday, after she fled a student-led rebellion by helicopter to India earlier this month.
The transfer to cancel Sheikh Hasina’s paperwork leaves the previous autocratic chief in potential limbo, and comes on the identical day {that a} United Nations workforce arrived in Dhaka to evaluate whether or not to research alleged human rights violations.
Greater than 450 folks had been killed — many by police hearth — through the weeks main as much as Sheikh Hasina’s ouster, as crowds stormed her official residence in Dhaka and ended her iron-fisted 15-year rule.
The inside ministry stated in a press release that Sheikh Hasina’s passport and people belonging to former authorities ministers and ex-lawmakers now not of their posts “need to be revoked”.
It additionally poses a diplomatic dilemma for Sheikh Hasina’s present host, regional powerhouse India.
‘Disproportionate power’
Submit the revolt and storming of her official residence on August 5, Ms Hasina fled to India
Whereas India is internet hosting Sheikh Hasina, PM Modi has additionally provided his help to the brand new Bangladeshi chief, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who’s heading the caretaker administration.
“The previous prime minister, her advisers, the previous cupboard and all members of the dissolved nationwide meeting had been eligible for diplomatic passports by advantage of the positions they held,” Dhaka’s residence ministry stated in a press release.
“If they’ve been eliminated or retired from their posts, their and their spouses’ diplomatic passports need to be revoked.”
Dhaka’s new authorities stated that Sheikh Hasina, and different former high officers throughout her tenure, might apply for the standard passport, however that these paperwork had been contingent on approval.
“When the aforementioned folks apply afresh for bizarre passports, two safety companies need to clear their utility for his or her passports to be issued,” the ministry added.
Sheikh Hasina’s authorities was accused of widespread abuses, together with the mass detention and extrajudicial killing of political opponents.
The UN rights workplace asessing the protest response had stated in a preliminary report final week that there have been “sturdy indications, warranting additional impartial investigation, that the safety forces used pointless and disproportionate power”.
Yunus has stated his administration would “present no matter help” UN investigators want.
Individually, a Bangladeshi battle crimes tribunal arrange by Sheikh Hasina has launched three “mass homicide” probes into its founder over the current unrest.
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