Ban on Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh lifted – World

Bangladesh’s interim government has lifted the ban on the country’s largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami.

It should be noted that the ban was imposed in the last days of Sheikh Hasina’s government. According to the order of the interim government, the government revokes the previous order dated August 1, two thousand and twenty-four.

Deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India, recently banned Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh and its student wing Islamic Chhatro Shibir on July 31 this year, accusing them of playing a key role in the violent riots during the student movement.

Initiation of investigation into hundreds of cases of missing persons during Hasina’s tenure

Bangladesh’s new authorities have launched an investigation into hundreds of cases of enforced disappearances by security forces under ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

It should be noted that during the regime of Sheikh Hasina Wajid, the infamous Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) was a paramilitary force accused of numerous rights violations and the US banned the paramilitary force on the basis of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances. was .

Human Rights Watch said last year that security forces had carried out “more than 600 enforced disappearances” since Hasina came to power in 2009, and about 100 remain missing.

Most of those detained belonged to Hasina’s rivals, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the country’s largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami.

Hasina Wajid’s government has consistently denied the allegations and claimed that some of the missing had drowned in the Mediterranean while trying to reach Europe.

A government order said a five-member committee headed by retired High Court judge Moinul Islam Chaudhary would also probe the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and other paramilitary police units.

The UN rights office says both the RAB and BGB forces have “records of serious human rights violations, including enforced disappearances and torture and ill-treatment”.

The commission, headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, has 45 working days to submit its report, ordered by the interim government to begin work.