Dhaka, Bangladesh - A special court was established to attempt to be removed from Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who began a lawsuit on Sunday, accepting charges against her human crimes against her in connection with her massive uprising, with hundreds of students killed last year.

The Dhaka-based International Crime Tribunal directed investigators to produce former interior minister and former police chief Hasina before the court on June 16.

Hasina has been in exile in India since August 5, 2024, while former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has disappeared, possibly even in India. Former Police Chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun has been arrested. Bangladesh made a formal request to India in December.

Bangladesh TV broadcasts a court lawsuit live.

Hasina and her Awami League have earlier criticized the court and its prosecution panel for ties with political parties, especially with the Jamaat-e-Islami party.

In an investigation report filed on May 12, court investigators filed five charges against Hasina and two other charges in a massive uprising last July-August.

According to the allegations, Hasina is directly responsible for ordering all national forces, her Awami Coalition Party and colleagues to take action to cause mass killings, injuries, targeted violence against women and children, inciting corpses and refusing medical treatment for injuries.

The accusation describes Hasina as a “planner, commander and superior commander” of the atrocities.

Three days after Hasina's removal, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus took over as interim leader of the country.

Yunus-led government has banned the AWAMI Coalition Party and amended relevant laws to allow trials of the former ruling party's role in the uprising.

In February, the UN Human Rights Office estimated that as many as 1,400 people in Bangladesh may have been killed in Bangladesh during a protest against Hasina, which ruled the country for 15 years.

The court was established by Hasina in 2009 to investigate and attempt crimes involving the Bangladesh War of Independence. The court under Hasina tried politicians, mainly from Jamat Islamic parties, for their lawsuits in the nine-month war against Pakistan. With the help of India, Bangladesh gained independence from Pakistan under the leadership of Hasina's father and the country's first leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

In another development, the Bangladesh Supreme Court cleared the path of the Jamaat-e-Islami party to re-register its registration as a political party in a decade, a decision that would allow the party to participate in the election.

The country's Supreme Court overturned the previous High Court decision and stated that the Election Commission is currently officially restored to the registration of the largest Islamic party in Bangladesh and its election symbols.

Yunus said his government will hold elections in June next year, but the Bangladesh Nationalist Party is headed by former Prime Minister Hasina's Artrival and hopes to hold elections in December. The relationship between Zia's parties is the largest without Hasina party, and the government led by Yuns has recently been struggling in the poll timeline.