{"id":66197,"date":"2024-08-13T20:51:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T11:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/13\/bangladesh-inquiry-sheikh-hasina-protests-abu-saeed"},"modified":"2024-08-13T20:51:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T11:51:02","slug":"bangladesh-court-orders-inquiry-into-sheikh-hasinas-alleged-role-in-grocers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66197","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh court orders inquiry into Sheikh Hasina\u2019s alleged role in grocer\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former PM and others accused over actions of police who fired on protesters, killing shop owner crossing street<\/p>\n<p>A court in Bangladesh has ordered an investigation into the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina\u2019s alleged role in the death of a grocery shop owner in the capital, Dhaka, during last month\u2019s student-led protests.<\/p>\n<p>The case filed by Bangladeshi citizen Amir Hamza against Hasina and six others was accepted by Dhaka\u2019s chief metropolitan magistrates court after a hearing, Hamza\u2019s lawyer, Anwarul Islam, said. The magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury ordered police to investigate the case, Islam added.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/13\/bangladesh-inquiry-sheikh-hasina-protests-abu-saeed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former PM and others accused over actions of police who fired on protesters, killing shop owner crossing streetA court in Bangladesh has ordered an investigation into the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina\u2019s alleged role in the death of a grocery shop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,80,2816,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-protest","category-sheikh-hasina","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66198,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66197\/revisions\/66198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}