The extradition of Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is a bilateral issue, a senior UN official said on Wednesday. The United Nations Human Rights Office in Geneva today launched the “OHCHR Fact-Finding Report: Human Rights Violations and Abuses related to the Protests of July and August 2024 in Bangladesh”.

Sheikh Hasina’s family home razed by protesters in Bangladesh - Protesters went on a rampage in Dhaka and ripped apart the historical residence of Bangladesh’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her government tried to cling on to power using systematic, deadly violence against protesters that could amount to "crimes against humanity", the UN has said.

The United Nations has accused Bangladesh’s ousted regime, led by former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, of potentially committing crimes against humanity during the brutal handling of last year’s protests that reportedly killed 1,

UN human rights investigators accuse the deposed government of Sheikh Hasina of a brutal response that they warn could amount to "crimes against humanity". They found "an official policy to attack and violently repress anti-government protesters and sympathisers",

Bangladesh's former government was behind systematic attacks and killings of protesters as it tried to hold onto power last year, the UN said Wednesday, warning the abuses could amount to "crimes against humanity".