The legal process for confiscating assets of people including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina convicted over 2024 July uprising-related crime against humanity cases and using them to compensate victims’ families is being finalised, International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor Md Aminul Islam said on Monday.
The process will determine how the assets will be confiscated, which agency will enforce the orders and how compensation will be paid to the victim families, he told reporters while responding to a query by a journalist at his office.
‘There are provisions in the law or rules for confiscation of property and compensation to victim families,’ Aminul said.
But the procedure for implementing the provisions is covered by general laws, he said.
Aminul said he had told the tribunal judges during hearings that clear directions were needed on the issue.
Once the procedure is finalised, it would have a ‘retrospective effect’ allowing authorities to confiscate assets under judgments already delivered, he said.
‘There is no legal problem with this,’ he added.
The tribunal on November 17, 2025 sentenced Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to death for crimes against humanity. Both remain hiding in India since the AL was ousted on August 5, 2024 following the July mass uprising 2024.
It also ordered the confiscation of their assets and directed the government to provide a ‘considerable amount of compensation’ to families of those killed in the July uprising.
The tribunal has issued similar orders in other cases. In the Ashulia case involving the killing of protesters and burning of six bodies, it ordered the confiscation of former Dhaka-19 lawmaker MP Saiful Islam’s property.
