UN team in Bangladesh to discuss modalities of human rights probe

FILE PHOTO: A flag is seen on a building during the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland February 27, 2023. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo

DHAKA (Reuters) - A United Nations team will meet Bangladesh's interim government and other stakeholders from Thursday to discuss the process to investigate alleged human rights violations during the recent deadly violence in the South Asian country, officials said.

About 300 people, many of them university and college students, were killed during protests that began in July with students agitating against quotas in government jobs before the events spiralled into demonstrations to oust long-serving former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.