The interim authorities of Bangladesh, led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, on Wednesday lifted a ban on Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its affiliated group, Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir.
Earlier this month, former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s administration enforced a ban on Jamaat-e-Islami, citing allegations of harmful actions, killings, and terrorist actions throughout the quota protests. The Appearing Secretary Common of Jamaat-e-Islami denounced these allegations, asserting that the ban was unlawful and pushed by the political vengeance of the federal government. He additionally accused the federal government of inciting the Chhatra League to assault the protesting college students by way of provocative and aggressive statements.
Based on the gazette notification from the Ministry of House Affairs, there isn’t any particular proof of the involvement of Jamaat-e-Islami, Islami Chhatra Shibir, and its entrance organizations in terrorist actions, and the federal government believes that the organisations are usually not concerned in terrorist actions.
Part 18 of the Anti-Terrorism Act of Bangladesh stipulates that the federal government, on cheap grounds that an entity is concerned in terrorist actions, could problem orders to prescribe the entity and embody it within the schedule of the Act. Moreover, the federal government is permitted to problem orders to incorporate or exclude any entity from the schedule or amend the schedule in any order method.
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