Bangladesh’s interim authorities on Saturday imposed a ban on all actions of the previous ruling Awami League get together, led by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted final yr following a mass rebellion.
Asif Nazrul, the nation’s regulation affairs adviser, introduced late Saturday that the interim Cabinet, led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, had determined to ban the get together’s actions each on-line and offline underneath the nation’s Anti-Terrorism Act.
The ban will stay in impact till a particular tribunal completes its trial of the get together and its leaders over the deaths of a whole lot of scholars and protesters through the anti-government rebellion in July and August of the earlier yr.
“This decision is aimed at ensuring national security and sovereignty, protecting activists of the July movement, and safeguarding plaintiffs and witnesses involved in the tribunal proceedings,” Nazrul instructed reporters after a particular Cabinet assembly.
Nazrul mentioned the assembly Saturday additionally expanded the scope for making an attempt any political events concerned in costs of killing through the anti-Hasina protests being dealt with by the International Crimes Tribunal.
He mentioned a authorities notification concerning the ban can be revealed quickly with particulars.
Hasina and lots of of her senior get together colleagues have been accused of homicide in a number of instances following her ouster final yr. Hasina has been in exile in India since Aug. 5, after her official residence was stormed by protesters quickly after she left the nation.
The United Nations Human Rights Office, in a report from February, mentioned as much as 1,400 individuals might have been killed throughout three weeks of anti-Hasina protests.
Saturday night time’s dramatic resolution got here after hundreds of protesters, together with supporters of a newly fashioned political get together by college students, took to the streets in Dhaka and issued an ultimatum to ban the Awami League get together by Saturday night time. Members of the scholar wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami get together additionally prominently took half within the protest.
There was no fast response from Hasina or her get together, however Nahid Islam, chief of the National Citizens Party and a scholar chief, applauded the Yunus-led authorities for its resolution.
The student-led rebellion ended Hasina’s 15 years of rule, and three days after her fall, Yunus took the helm as interim chief.
Source: www.dailysabah.com