The interim government of Bangladesh announced on Saturday that it would prohibit all the activities of the Awami League, the political party of the country’s overthrow leader, Sheikh Hazina, under the country’s anti -terrorism law until they have.
The Government, led by the Nobel Prize Muhammad Yunus, also modified a law to ensure that an entire party can be tried for certain crimes, not only individual members.
Last summer, the authoritarian government of Mrs. Hasina was demolished by a student protest movement. She fled to India, but the Awami League maintained a presence in Bangladesh.
When Hasnat Abdullah, one of the leaders of the uprising last year, was attacked last week, the supporters or the party of Mrs. Hasina were blamed. That caused more indignation of harder students and demands of action against the Awami League.
“Our ultimate goal is to see that the Awami League is prohibited,” said Hasnat during a protest on Saturday. “Even if I don’t make more ads, don’t leave the streets until the Awami League is prohibited.”
Hundreds of people, including students in wheelchairs or in crutches that had been injured, the protests last year, joined the demonstration and demanded that the Awami League be banned. Other political parties, including the student wing of James-E-Islami, Islami Andolan, and the members of Hefazat-E Islam, an Islamic non-political pressure group, also joined the demonstration.
On Saturday night, the Minister of Law, Asif Nazrul, said that the government would be “all the activities” of the Awami League under the Bangladesh anti -terrorism law “until the party trials and its leaders are completed in the court of international crimes.”
The Court, despite its name, is a national court, and Oally will rule on accusations that members of the Awami League committed atrocities of the protests of 2024. The interim government says that the legal amendment was to ensure that a political party cannot repudiate an individual member as a bad actor while continuing to back down the behavior of the bathroom.
An investigation commission formed by the interim government said in December that Mrs. Hasina orchestrated the door of mass disappearances of 15 years in power.
Separately, an investigation of the Acts of the United Nations said in February that at least 1,400 people, including children, were killed by the Police and the members of the duration of Mrs. Party Hasina the protests last year.
In a Facebook publication, the Awami League alluded to the unded nature of the interim government in a comment on the amendment: “The decisions of an illegitimate government are also illegitimate in themselves.”
In 2024, students’ protests against a employment reserve system became a great uprising fed by frustration and anger by the government of Mrs. Hasina. The tensions intensified after the death of a protester in mid -July, which led its administration to block internet, impose touches of curb and order the forces of the army, paramilitar and police to take energetic measures against protesters.
Mrs. Hasina fled Bangladesh on August 5, escaping for little the thousands of protesters marching to her residence. Three days later, Mr. Yunus Tok an oath as the new head of the Government.
