Bangladesh’s interim govt bans Awami League-backed Chhatra League under Anti-Terrorism Act

The notification said determination was capable grounds indicating the pupil assemblage continued to prosecute successful conspiratorial, destructive, and provocative activities against the State adjacent aft the autumn of the Awami League government.

Hasina connected August 5 fled to India successful the look of convulsive protests against her government, starring to the decease of hundreds of radical since mid-July.

During the Anti-Discrimination movement, BCL leaders and activists attacked protesting students and the wide nationalist with arms, sidesplitting hundreds of guiltless radical and endangering the lives of galore much people, the notification said.

The authorities has capable grounds that adjacent aft the autumn of the Awami League government, the Bangladesh Chhatra League has been progressive successful conspiratorial, destructive and provocative activities against the State, it said.

Consequently, the interim authorities declared a prohibition connected Bangladesh Chhatra League nether Section 18(1) of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2009, it said, adding the organisation was listed arsenic a banned entity with contiguous effect.
“The prohibition volition travel into effect immediately,” work the notification.

The bid came a time aft protesters from the Anti-Discrimination Students Movement connected Tuesday laid a five-point demand, including the scrapping of Bangladesh’s Constitution, President Shahabuddin’s removal, and a prohibition connected the Chhatra League.

“Bangladesh and Dhaka University are present escaped from stigma. We would similar to convey the interim government,” said Nusrat Tabassum, a coordinator of the pupil movement, astatine Raju Sculpture of the country’s premier university.

The 76-year-old BCL, calved arsenic a pupil grouping astatine the Dhaka University field successful 1948, a twelvemonth up of Awami League’s emergence arsenic a governmental party, was officially a “brotherly” oregon “fraternal” organisation of Awami League portion it was regarded arsenic the party’s pupil wing.