Dhaka, Bangladesh (AP) – The interim government of Bangladesh prohibited all the activities of the former Awami league party on Saturday in power led by former influential Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted last year in a mass uprising.
Asif Nazrul, the country's law advisor, said the temporary office led by the Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus on Saturday, said the country's activities and elsewhere under the country's anti -line law. The ban would remain in place until a special court completes a trial of the party and its leaders when hundreds of students and other demonstrators during an anti-government uprising in July and August from last year.
“This decision aims to ensure national security and sovereignty, the protection of activists of the July movement and the complainants and the witnesses involved in the procedure of the court,” Nazrul told journalists after a special meeting of the cabinet.
Nazrul said that the meeting on Saturday also widened the scope for trying political parties involving accusations of murder during the anti-Hasina demonstration managed by the International Crimes Court.
He said that a government notification concerning the ban would soon be published with details.
Hasina and many of her colleagues from the senior party have been accused of murder in many cases after her evidence last year. Hasina has been in exile in India since August 5, while her official residence was temporary by demonstrators shortly after leaving the country.
The United Nations Human Rights Office in a report declared in February that up to 1,400 people Maybe killed for three weeks of anti-Hasina protest.
The dramatic decision on Saturday evening came after thousands of demonstrators, including supporters of A newly formed political party By the students, went down to the streets of Dacca and published an ultimatum to ban the Awami League party by Saturday evening.
The uprising led by students ended The 15 years of Hasina ruleAnd three days after his fall, Yunus took the bar as an acting leader.
