Abu Sayed autopsy doctor deposes against Hasina, 2 others at ICT-1

This news article from the Dhaka Tribune (dated August 24, 2025) reports on testimony given at Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1) in a crimes against humanity case against ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and two other former officials regarding killings during the July 2024 mass uprising. The central witness, Dr. Razibul Islam, a forensic medicine doctor who performed the autopsy on Abu Sayed (a student killed by police during the uprising), testified that law enforcement officials repeatedly pressured and bribed him to falsify the cause of death, offering foreign trips and vacations in exchange for changing his findings from pellet injuries to head injury or neurological shock. He refused, ultimately documenting pellet injuries as the cause of death despite threats against him and his family. The article also notes that by the time of the report, 19 total witnesses had testified, that Hasina and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal are believed to be in India and are being tried in absentia, and that the prosecution has filed five charges of crimes against humanity against the three defendants related to killings during the July 2024 uprising.

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