Bangladesh bans activities of Awami League, the party of ousted PM Hasina | News

The measure occurs after a call to a commission to investigate the murder of protesters and establish the national unit.

The interim government of Bangladesh has banned all the activities of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was expelled last year after an uprising led by students.

The interim cabinet, headed by the Nobel Muhammad Yunus Prize, decided to prohibit the Awami League under the anti -terrorism law, said Bangladesh legal affairs advisor, Asif Nazrul, on Saturday night.

The prohibition would remain in force until the trial of the party and its leadership for the death of hundreds of protesters in the International Crymos Court (ICT) is completed, the government said in the statement.

The student wing of the Awami League, the Bangladesh Chhatra League, was prohibited in October after being labeled as a “terrorist organization” for its role in violent attacks against the King protesters.

Thousands of protesters, including supporters of a newly formed student party, had been taking to the streets of Dhaka for days to demand a ban of the Awami League.

The members of the student wing of the James-E-Islami party also separate prominently in the protests.

A massive uprising that began with the protests led by students in July last year led to the expulsion of Hasina, who had governed Bangladesh with an iron fist for 15 years.

Up to 1,400 people may have been killed for three weeks of protests against Hasina and his government, according to an February report of the United Nations Human Rights Office. Hasina and many of his senior party officials have accused of murder and other crimes as a result.

In his announcement, Nazrul also said that the cabinet extended the reach to prove any political part that involves charges of killing protests.

The Law of Change to the Information and Communication Technology Law (ICT) erases the way for the Awami League to be judged as a collective entity for alleged crimes committed in its time in power.

The measure of prohibiting the party from occurring hours after Nazrul said that a truth and reconciliation commission would be formed to underline the national unity. The last movement, political analysts say, will avoid the necessary unity for a soft transition of power in this nation in southern Asia of 170 million people.

The coordinator of the National Citizen Party, Nahid Islam, who is also a student leader, applauded the government’s decision.

But the Awami League, founded in 1949, dismissed the decision as illegitimate, publishing on its official Facebook page: “All illegal government decisions are illegal.”

Hasina has been living in exile in India since August 5, with her official residence in Bangladesh they also assaulted by the protesters shortly after she left.

Earlier this month, former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia returned to Dhaka after four months of medical treatment in the British capital, London, which increases pressure on the interim government to establish a date for national elections.

Yunus has promised reforms to political institutions and said that surveys could be delayed until 2026.