Shots were fired in the head with sniper rifles, says July witness

A witness at the tribunal has said protesters in Dhaka's Jatrabari during last year’s July Uprising were shot in the head with sniper rifles on the day of the Awami League-led government’s fall. The witness, Ali Ahsan Junayed, is affiliated with a research institute and is the founding convenor of the post-Uprising political organisation United People's Bangladesh (UPB). Junayed, a former student of Dhaka University during the 2013 quota movement, described incidents from last year’s anti-quota movements. The testimony was given in a case filed against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan and former police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun over alleged crimes against humanity. The hearing took place before the three-member International Crimes Tribunal-1, headed by...