GOVERNMENT AGENCY
Institutional context for government tenure, executive authority, and findings/allegations concerning protest repression from 2009 to 2024.
Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh · Bangladesh · 1981-present
A central figure in discussions of state power, elections, human-rights records, and post-2024 accountability as a long-serving prime minister and Awami League president.
Bangladesh Awami League
Last verified: 7 Aug 2026
General Secretary of Bangladesh Awami League · Noakhali · 1970-2024
A nationally visible party organizer discussed through Awami League leadership, ministerial office, and electoral politics.
Bangladesh Awami League
Last verified: 8 Aug 2026
Former Inspector General of Police · Bangladesh · 2022-2024
A former national police chief discussed through law-enforcement command responsibility, unrest-period policing, and later criminal proceedings.
Bangladesh Police
Last verified: 7 Aug 2026
Former Home Minister · Bangladesh · 2014-2025
A former home-affairs minister discussed through national security command, policing policy, and ICT process reporting after the July uprising.
Ministry of Home Affairs
Last verified: 7 Aug 2026
OFFICIAL ROLE
Public biographical and news sources identify her as a former prime minister of Bangladesh, with 2009-2024 as the longest continuous period in office.
OFFICIAL FINDING
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Criminal Appeal No 96/2025 referenced after ICT-1 judgment
There is a court-reported conviction and sentence, while Sheikh Hasina has called the verdict biased and politically motivated; appeal/surrender/arrest posture remains separate context.
View caseBangladesh Awami League · 27 Sep 2018
Party profile describing birth in Tungipara, Awami League leadership from 1981, prime ministerial terms, opposition roles, and major political milestones.
View sourceBangladesh Sangbad Sangstha · 10 Jul 2025
State news report that ICT-1 framed charges against Sheikh Hasina and two others in a crimes-against-humanity case and noted the rejection of a discharge plea.
View sourceBangladesh Sangbad Sangstha · 26 Nov 2025
State news report on release of the ICT-1 judgment text after the tribunal convicted and sentenced Sheikh Hasina in the July Mass Uprising case.
View sourceOffice of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights · 12 Feb 2025
UN fact-finding report on protest-related human rights violations between July 1 and August 15, 2024, including findings about former-government policy and security-force conduct.
View sourceAssociated Press · 17 Nov 2025
Wire report on the ICT verdict, including Hasina's response denying wrongdoing and calling the verdict biased and politically motivated.
View sourceThe Daily Star · 5 Aug 2026
Analysis article tracing electoral controversies, centralisation of executive authority, democratic-space concerns, repression allegations, economic-development claims, and the student-led uprising that ended Hasina's rule.
View sourceThe Daily Star · 6 Aug 2018
The Daily Star reported Amnesty International's call to end the crackdown on student protesters after two students were killed and others injured by a speeding bus, and described the movement's safe-road demands.
View sourceHuman Rights Watch · 6 Aug 2018
Human Rights Watch reported attacks on student protesters and critics, arrests of students and journalists, and government promises concerning reckless driving, traffic regulation, and a new Road Safety Act.
View sourcebdnews24.com · 16 Aug 2018
bdnews24.com reported police figures of 97 arrests in 51 cases after the road-safety movement, including cases under the ICT Act; the report described the procedural arrest record rather than a finding of guilt.
View sourceThe Daily Star · 29 Jul 2022
The Daily Star reviewed the 2018 road-safety movement, subsequent government directives, and continuing road-safety concerns without treating the movement's disputed outcomes as settled fact.
View sourceThe Daily Star · 1 Aug 2018
The Daily Star reported comments by Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal describing the students' demands as logical, alongside Road Transport Minister Obaidul Quader's comments on the proposed transport law.
View sourceThe Daily Star · 4 Aug 2018
The Daily Star reported that Road Transport and Bridges Minister and Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader urged students to remain alert to political exploitation and spoke about the safety of protesters.
View sourceThe Daily Star · 2 Aug 2018
The Daily Star reported public comments by Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, and Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan during the road-safety movement.
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