Bangladesh’s interim authorities on Thursday banned former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s pupil physique.
The interim authorities introduced this choice citing the coed physique’s involvement in violent assaults on pupil protests that led to the overthrow of Sheikh Hasina’s authorities in August.
Sheikh Hasina fled the nation in August when 1000’s of individuals marched on her official residence, ending her 15-year administration.
“The Bangladesh authorities has banned the Bangladesh Chhatra League, the coed wing of the Bangladesh Awami League, underneath the Anti-Terrorism Act,” stated an official assertion quoted by the AFP information company in its report.
In line with a authorities notification, the Chhatra League, a pupil wing of the Awami League, has confronted quite a few allegations over the past three phrases of the occasion. These embrace accusations of “homicide, persecution, torture… and lots of different actions that threaten public security.”
The discover additionally talked about that the coed wing had been banned underneath anti-terrorism legal guidelines.
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