Bangladesh’s International Crime Tribunal on Thursday has issued an arrest warrant against Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
A special tribunal in Bangladesh on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for Sajib Wajed Joy, the expatriate son of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, just a month after sentencing his mother to death on charges of committing crimes against humanity.
An ICT-BD prosecutor told reporters that the warrant was issued in a case accusing Joy of also having committed crimes against humanity during the July Uprising. The prosecutor added that a similar warrant was issued for former junior ICT minister Junaid Ahmed Palak, who is already in custody.
The order was delivered by ICT-1, led by Justice Golam Mortaza, with Justice Md. Shafiul Alam Mahmud and Justice Md. Mohitul Haque Enam Chowdhury serving as its two other members. The tribunal also reviewed allegations against former state minister for information technology Junaid Ahmed Palak in connection with the same case.
Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal had earlier sentenced the ousted prime minister and her then home minister, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, to death after trying them in absentia. They were found guilty of using brutal methods to suppress a student-led protest known as the July Uprising.
Joy, 54, an information communication expert who served as the ex-premier’s ICT affairs adviser, currently lives in the US.
The student-led violent street movement dubbed the July Uprising toppled ex-premier Hasina’s Awami League regime on August 5, 2025, while Professor Muhammad-led subsequent interim government in January published a list of 834 deaths of “July Warriors”.
The UN rights commission office (OHCHR) reported 1,400 deaths between July 15 and August 15, saying the figure included the outcome of retaliatory violence against police and Awami League activists even after the fall of the past government.
The ICT-BD in a separate case filed over “mass killings’ carried out after the imposition of curfew during the movement on Thursday accepted formal charges against former law minister Anisul Huq and ex-premier’s investment adviser Salman F Rahman.
Both of them were already in jail while the tribunal ordered their personal appearance on the dock on December 10, along with the then junior ICT minister Palak.
With inputs from agencies
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