Dhaka: Bangladesh on Sunday said it would seek an Interpol “red notice” alert for fugitive leaders of the ousted regime of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, which was toppled in a revolution in August.

“Those responsible for the indiscriminate killings during the mass uprising in July and August will be brought back from wherever they took refuge,” Asif Nazrul, the interim government’s legal adviser, told reporters on Sunday.

“We will make sure they are arrested and brought to justice.”

Dozens of Hasina’s allies have been taken into custody since the fall of her regime, accused of involvement in a police crackdown that killed more than 700 people during the unrest that led to her ouster.

France-based Interpol publishes red notices at the request of a member country based on an arrest warrant issued in their country of origin.

Nazrul did not name anyone, but Bangladesh has already issued an arrest warrant for Hasina, 77, who was last seen arriving in India after fleeing by helicopter as crowds stormed her palace.

Hasina’s 15-year rule has been marked by widespread human rights abuses, including mass detention and extrajudicial killings of her political opponents.

Red notices issued by the global police body alert law enforcement agencies around the world to fugitives.

Nazrul said they would seek a red notice “as soon as possible”.

India is a member of Interpol, but the red notice does not mean that New Delhi has to hand over Hasina.

Member countries can “apply their own laws to decide whether to arrest a person”, according to the group, which organizes police cooperation between 196 member countries.

Hasina was summoned to appear in a Dhaka court on November 18 to face charges of “massacres, murders and crimes against humanity”.

Mohammad Tajul Islam, chief prosecutor of Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), told AFP on Sunday that the court had “requested arrest warrants for more than 60 people” and that “about 25 have been arrested so far”. .