{"id":62731,"date":"2025-07-09T15:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deshmediabd.com\/?p=62731"},"modified":"2025-07-09T15:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:38:09","slug":"hasina-authorised-deadly-crackdown-bbc-investigation-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/?p=62731","title":{"rendered":"Hasina authorised deadly crackdown, BBC investigation reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A deadly crackdown on student-led protests in Bangladesh last year was authorised by the then prime minister Sheikh Hasina, according to audio of one of her phone calls verified by BBC Eye, a BBC&#8217;s documentary series offering high-impact investigations.<\/p>\n<p>In the audio, which was leaked online in March, Hasina says she authorised her security forces to &#8220;use lethal weapons&#8221; against protesters and that &#8220;wherever they find [them], they will shoot&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>On July 2, 2025, the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 convicted and sentenced ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina to six months in jail in a contempt of court case.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors in Bangladesh plan to use the recording as crucial evidence against Hasina, who is being tried in absentia at a special tribunal for crimes against humanity, BBC reports.<\/p>\n<p>The ICT has already taken the issue of Hasina&#8217;s phone call into its account and will deliver its order in this regard tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 1,400 people died in the unrest, according to UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Hasina fled to India on August 5 last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/news-flash\/290584\">\u09ac\u09bf\u09b8\u09cd\u09a4\u09be\u09b0\u09bf\u09a4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deadly crackdown on student-led protests in Bangladesh last year was authorised by the then prime minister Sheikh Hasina, according to audio of one of her phone calls verified by BBC Eye, a BBC&#8217;s documentary series offering high-impact investigations. In the audio, which was leaked online in March, Hasina says she authorised her security forces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62733,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62731\/revisions\/62733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}