August 13, 2024: A court in Bangladesh opened a murder investigation into ousted ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina and six top officials in the previous government over the police killing of a man during civil unrest last month.

Mamun Mia, a lawyer who brought the case on behalf of a private citizen, said the court in Dhaka had ordered police to accept ‘the murder case against the accused persons’, the first step in a criminal investigation under Bangladeshi law.