Bangladesh on Thursday banned the Jamaat-e-Islami and its scholar wing Islami Chhatra Shibir underneath anti-terrorism regulation following nationwide unrest, citing the risk the fundamentalist celebration poses to public security.
A notification issued by the House Ministry’s Public Safety Division on Thursday confirmed the ban on the Islamist celebration, a key ally of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Get together.
The ban on Jamaat, Chhatra Shibir and different related teams got here by means of an govt order underneath Part 18(1) of the Anti-Terrorism Act.
“They (Jamaat-Shibir and BNP) merely used the scholars as their protect,” Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina mentioned on Thursday when Italian Ambassador Antonio Alessandro known as on her at her official residence Ganabhaban right here.
Bangladesh’s authorities on Tuesday determined to ban Jamaat-e-Islami following lethal nationwide scholar protests over quotas in authorities jobs, accusing it of exploiting the motion that left at the very least 150 individuals useless.
The event comes after a gathering of the 14-party alliance led by the ruling Awami League earlier this week handed a decision stating that Jamaat ought to be banned from politics.
The latest resolution to ban Jamaat comes greater than 50 years after its preliminary ban in 1972 for “misusing faith for political functions.”
High leaders of the ruling Awami League, which has been in energy for the previous 15 years, have supported banning the Jamaat due to its function within the Liberation Warfare.
The Jamaat remained lively regardless of having misplaced its registration and being excluded from elections as a consequence of court docket rulings.
The celebration was reportedly concerned in latest violence surrounding protests by the quota reform motion, which the federal government has cited as a cause for the ban, the report added.
Violence gripped Bangladesh for many of July, as protests that started in universities and faculties earlier this month shortly escalated into widespread unrest towards Prime Minister Hasina and her authorities’s insurance policies.
The federal government known as within the military to quell protests towards job quotas after unrest left at the very least 150 individuals useless and several other thousand individuals, together with police, injured and main authorities amenities broken.
Justice Minister Anisul Huq mentioned on Tuesday that the ban is imposed as a consequence of latest violence related to the quota reform motion and will probably be enacted by means of an govt order, the report added.
