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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi and Redwan Ahmed in Dhaka

‘She should answer for what she did’: trial of ex-Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Hasina begins

Sheikh Hasina
Sheikh Hasina fled to India in August last year and will be tried in absentia. Photograph: Christophe Ena/AP

Rakib Hossain was just 11 years old when, standing innocently on the streets of Dhaka in July last year, he was killed by a bullet to the head – fired allegedly by the police.

Hossain was one of more than 1,400 men, women and children killed in Bangladesh’s so-called July revolution, when hundreds of thousands across the country rose up in protest against the country’s leader, Sheikh Hasina.

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