Bangladesh bans all activities of ousted PM Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League

Bangladesh on Saturday banned all activities of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League, including its online platforms, under the country’s anti-terrorism act, The Daily Star reported.

The government said the ban will remain effective until the trials of the party and its leaders, accused of being linked to the deaths of hundreds of protesters under the International Crimes Tribunals Act, are concluded.

Hasina was ousted from power and fled to India on August 5 amid widespread student-led protests against her Awami League government. She had been the prime minister of Bangladesh for 16 years.

Nobel laureate economist Muhammad Yunus took over as the head of Bangladesh’s interim government on August 8.

The interim government has said it will investigate Hasina in connection with allegations that she ordered the killings and enforced disappearances of dissidents during the public uprising against her regime in July and August. A total of 51 cases have been filed against her, including 42 for murder. Two warrants for her arrest have also been issued.

The decision to ban the Awami League was taken at a meeting of the council of advisers, chaired by Yunus, following three days of protests outside the chief advisor’s calling for a ban on the party and its prosecution for atrocities committed to suppress the 2024 uprising, The Daily...

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