Gazipur resident testifies police shot a man, removed body during July Uprising protest

A witness has told a tribunal that police abducted the body of a man in Gazipur after shooting him dead during the July movement’s “March to Dhaka” programme. Mohammad Sohel Mahmud, a resident of Gazipur’s Kashimpur appeared before the International Crimes Tribunal-1, on Monday to testify. The trial relates to crimes against humanity charges against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, and ex-IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun. The three-member bench was led by tribunal Chairman Justice Golam Mortuza Mozumder. Describing what he saw, Sohel said: “The rickshaw garage is next to my house. From the roof I saw several policemen take a man from the garage and move him to a graveyard in front of my house....