{"id":71726,"date":"2025-05-11T06:48:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T21:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/10\/bangladeshi-interim-cabinet-bans-all-activities-of-ousted-awami-league-party"},"modified":"2025-05-11T06:48:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T21:48:26","slug":"bangladeshi-interim-cabinet-bans-all-ousted-awami-league-party-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71726","title":{"rendered":"Bangladeshi interim cabinet bans all ousted Awami League party activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ban of former PM Sheikh Hasina\u2019s party under Anti-Terrorism Act will remain until trial over student deaths completes<\/p>\n<p>The interim government in Bangladesh has banned all activities of the former ruling Awami League party headed by former influential prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/05\/bangladesh-pm-has-resigned-and-left-country-media-reports-say-sheikh-hasina\">ousted last year in a mass uprising<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Asif Nazrul, the country\u2019s law affairs adviser, said on Saturday the interim cabinet headed by the Nobel peace prize laureate Muhammad Yunus decided to ban the party\u2019s activities online and elsewhere under the country\u2019s Anti-Terrorism Act. The ban would stay in place until a special tribunal completes a trial of the party and its leaders over the deaths of hundreds of students and other protesters during an anti-government uprising in July and August last year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/10\/bangladeshi-interim-cabinet-bans-all-activities-of-ousted-awami-league-party\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ban of former PM Sheikh Hasina\u2019s party under Anti-Terrorism Act will remain until trial over student deaths completesThe interim government in Bangladesh has banned all activities of the former ruling Awami League party headed by former influential pri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,2816,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-sheikh-hasina","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71727,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71726\/revisions\/71727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}