Bangladeshi interim cupboard bans all ousted Awami League occasion actions | Bangladesh

The interim authorities in Bangladesh has banned all actions of the previous ruling Awami League occasion headed by former influential prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted final yr in a mass rebellion.

Asif Nazrul, the nation’s regulation affairs adviser, mentioned on Saturday the interim cupboard headed by the Nobel peace prize laureate Muhammad Yunus determined to ban the occasion’s actions on-line and elsewhere beneath the nation’s Anti-Terrorism Act. The ban would keep in place till a particular tribunal completes a trial of the occasion and its leaders over the deaths of lots of of scholars and different protesters throughout an anti-government rebellion in July and August final yr.

“This resolution is geared toward guaranteeing nationwide safety and sovereignty, safety of activists of the July motion, and plaintiffs and witnesses concerned within the tribunal proceedings,” Nazrul instructed reporters after a particular cupboard assembly.

Nazrul mentioned the assembly on Saturday additionally expanded scope for making an attempt any political events involving prices of killing through the anti-Hasina protest being dealt with by the worldwide crimes tribunal.

He mentioned a authorities notification concerning the ban could be printed quickly with particulars.

Hasina and lots of of her senior occasion colleagues have been accused of homicide in lots of circumstances after her ouster final yr. She has been in exile in India since 5 August as her official residence was stormed by protesters quickly after she left the nation.

The UNs human rights workplace mentioned in a report in February that as much as 1,400 individuals might have been killed throughout three weeks of anti-Hasina protest.

Saturday night time’s dramatic resolution got here after hundreds of protesters, together with supporters of a newly fashioned political occasion by college students, took to the streets in Dhaka and issued an ultimatum to ban the Awami League occasion by Saturday night time. The members of the coed wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami occasion additionally prominently took half within the protest.

There was no fast response from Hasina or her occasion, however the chief of the Jatiya Nagorik or Nationwide Citizen occasion, Nahid Islam, who can also be a scholar chief, applauded the Yunus-led authorities for its resolution.

The coed-led rebellion ended Hasina’s 15 years of rule, and three days after her fall Yunus took workplace as interim chief.