Amnesty International, in line with the recommendations made in the UN report, has strongly urged the interim government to consider referring the incidents which took place between 1 July to 15 August in Bangladesh.
The human rights organisation calls on authorities once more to hold perpetrators of the violence to account as new information analysed by the BBC emerges, alleging audio-evidence of Bangladesh's ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina ordering a deadly crackdown during the July-August protests in 2024.
A UN Fact-finding report released in February 2025 claimed that as many as 1,400 people may have been killed during the protests.
The vast majority of whom were killed by military rifles and shotguns loaded with lethal metal pellets commonly used by Bangladesh's security forces. Thousands more suffered severe, often life-altering injuries.
The report also added that Bangladeshi authorities must ensure an independent investigation into all human rights violations committed during the period, followed by a fair trial that adheres to due process safeguards without recourse to the death penalty, against all those who carried out the violence, as well as those who commanded it.
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