Exclusive-Bangladesh student leader Nahid Islam wants ousted PM Hasina to face trial


Nahid Islam, one of the main leaders in the Bangladeshi student protests, attends a press briefing after the resignation of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 5, 2024. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

DHAKA (Reuters) - A Bangladeshi student leader who was instrumental in overthrowing Sheikh Hasina and is now part of an interim government said she must face trial when she returns home as planned for the killings during her term, including during recent protests, which led her to resign and flee on Monday.

About 300 people, many of them university and college students, were killed in the demonstrations that began in July with students demonstrating against quotas in government jobs before spiralling into violent protests to oust Hasina, who had ruled Bangladesh for 20 of the last 30 years.

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