The interim government in Bangladesh has prohibited all activities of the previous ruling Awami League party headed by former influential prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted in 2015 in a mass uprising.Asif Nazrul, the countrys law affairs consultant, stated on Saturday the interim cabinet headed by the Nobel peace reward laureate Muhammad Yunus chose to prohibit the celebrations activities online and elsewhere under the countrys Anti-Terrorism Act.
The ban would remain in place up until a special tribunal finishes a trial of the celebration and its leaders over the deaths of numerous trainees and other protesters during an anti-government uprising in July and August last year.This decision is aimed at ensuring national security and sovereignty, defense of activists of the July motion, and plaintiffs and witnesses associated with the tribunal proceedings, Nazrul informed press reporters after a special cabinet meeting.Nazrul said the conference on Saturday likewise expanded scope for attempting any political celebrations including charges of killing during the anti-Hasina protest being managed by the worldwide criminal activities tribunal.He said a federal government notification regarding the ban would be published quickly with details.Hasina and many of her senior celebration associates have been implicated of murder in a lot of cases after her ouster last year.
She has been in exile in India considering that 5 August as her official residence was stormed by protesters soon after she left the country.The UNs human rights office stated in a report in February that as much as 1,400 people may have been killed during three weeks of anti-Hasina protest.Saturday nights significant choice followed countless protesters, consisting of fans of a freshly formed political party by students, required to the streets in Dhaka and issued a demand to prohibit the Awami League party by Saturday night.
The members of the trainee wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami party likewise prominently participated in the protest.There was no immediate reaction from Hasina or her celebration, but the chief of the Jatiya Nagorik or National Citizen party, Nahid Islam, who is also a student leader, praised the Yunus-led federal government for its decision.The student-led uprising ended Hasinas 15 years of guideline, and three days after her fall Yunus took office as interim leader.