DHAKA: Bangladesh’s interim authorities has banned all actions of the Awami League, the political celebration of deposed former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, beneath the nation’s Anti-Terrorism Act, citing nationwide safety considerations.
The choice, introduced late Saturday (Could 10), follows days of road protests led by the student-driven Nationwide Citizen Get together, which emerged from final 12 months’s rebellion that toppled Hasina.
A number of Islamist and right-wing events, together with Jamaat-e-Islami and different opposition teams, joined the demonstrations, demanding the Awami League be designated a terrorist organisation.
The ban would stay in place till the trial of the celebration and its management over deaths of a whole bunch of protesters on the Worldwide Crimes Tribunal is accomplished, the federal government mentioned in an announcement.
The federal government additionally introduced an modification to the ICT Act, permitting the tribunal to prosecute not solely people but in addition political events and organisations. The change clears the way in which for the Awami League to be tried as a collective entity for alleged crimes dedicated throughout its time in energy.
The Awami League, which was based in 1949, dismissed the choice as illegitimate, posting on its official Fb web page: “All selections of the unlawful authorities are unlawful.”
The nation has seen rising tensions and protests in current months, after lethal protests compelled Hasina to flee to India in August and an interim authorities led by Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus took cost.
Yunus pledged reforms and mentioned the ballot might be delayed till 2026.
The unrest started in July with scholar protests in opposition to public sector job quotas, however rapidly morphed into one of many deadliest durations of political violence since Bangladesh’s independence in 1971.
In October, the federal government banned the Awami League’s scholar wing, Bangladesh Chhatra League, labeling it a “terrorist organisation” for its function in violent assaults on protesters.
