Sheikh Hasina stayed in power by controlling elections: Badruddin Umar in ICT testimony  | News Flash

DHAKA, Sept 8, 2025 (BSS) - Sheikh Hasina stayed in the country’s power by controlling elections. Besides, by abusing state power, she had taken over the electoral system and in fact her relationship with the people had been completely severed. Badruddin Umar, eminent intellectual, writer, researcher and Jatiya Mukti Council president who died recently, told this in his last statement given as a witness to the investigation officer (IO) in the case against Sheikh Hasina and three others at the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on charges of crimes against humanity. Talking to the journalists, ICT Prosecutor Gazi MH Tamim said,”Late Badruddin Umar was an important witness in Sheikh Hasina's case . . . This intellectual could not come to the...