UN rights chief: Bangladeshi gov't suspected of rights violations in protest response


United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk holds a press conference in Damascus, Syria January 15, 2025. REUTERS/Yamam Al Shaar/File Photo

GENEVA (Reuters) - The UN's human rights chief said on Wednesday there are reasonable grounds to believe officials of the former government of Bangladesh and security apparatus committed serious human rights violations against anti-government protesters last summer.

A fact-finding report found that "certain crimes against humanity have been committed", the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, told reporters in Geneva.

(Reporting by Olivia Le Poidevin, Editing by Rachel More)

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