Bangladesh's former government was behind systematic attacks and killings of protesters as it tried to hold onto power last year, the UN said on Wednesday, warning that the abuses could amount to "crimes against humanity".

UN human rights investigators accuse the deposed government of Sheikh Hasina of a brutal response that they warn could amount to "crimes against humanity". They found "an official policy to attack and violently repress anti-government protesters and sympathisers",

The extradition of Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is a bilateral issue, a senior UN official said on Wednesday. The United Nations Human Rights Office in Geneva today launched the “OHCHR Fact-Finding Report: Human Rights Violations and Abuses related to the Protests of July and August 2024 in Bangladesh”.

Sheikh Hasina was ousted from power in August 2024. Before the toppling of the government, the Awami League-led government oversaw a systematic crackdown on protestors and students

A new report by the United Nations Human Rights Office has detailed the brutal repression of student-led protests in Bangladesh last year, accusing the former government of Sheikh Hasi

The United Nations report, which is based on an inquiry into the unrest in Bangladesh last year, estimated that around 1,400 protesters were killed, while thousands were injured.

The UN has accused Bangladesh's former administration of committing crimes against humanity during last year's protests, citing hundreds of extrajudic

Before Sheikh Hasina was ousted in a student-led revolution last August, her govt oversaw a crackdown with "hundreds of extrajudicial killings," the UN said.

There are grounds to believe extrajudicial killings took place with the ‘knowledge and direction’ of the leadership, said the United Nations human rights body.