Bangladesh's interim government bans the former ruling party of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The interim authorities successful Bangladesh connected Saturday banned each activities of the erstwhile ruling Awami League enactment headed by erstwhile influential Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted past twelvemonth successful a wide uprising.

Asif Nazrul, the country's instrumentality affairs adviser, said precocious Saturday the interim Cabinet headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus decided to prohibition the party's activities online and elsewhere nether the country's Anti-Terrorism Act. The prohibition would enactment successful spot until a peculiar tribunal completes a proceedings of the enactment and its leaders implicit the deaths of hundreds of students and different protesters during an anti-government uprising successful July and August past year.

“This determination is aimed astatine ensuring nationalist information and sovereignty, extortion of activists of the July movement, and plaintiffs and witnesses progressive successful the tribunal proceedings," Nazrul told reporters aft a peculiar Cabinet meeting.

Nazrul said the gathering Saturday besides expanded scope for trying immoderate governmental parties involving charges of sidesplitting during the anti-Hasina protestation being handled by the International Crimes Tribunal.

He said a authorities notification regarding the prohibition would beryllium published soon with details.

Hasina and galore of her elder enactment colleagues person been accused of execution successful galore cases aft her ouster past year. Hasina has been successful exile successful India since Aug. 5 arsenic her authoritative residence was stormed by protesters soon aft she near the country.

The United Nations quality rights bureau successful a study said successful February that up to 1,400 radical whitethorn person been killed during 3 weeks of anti-Hasina protest.

Saturday night's melodramatic determination came aft thousands of protesters, including supporters of a recently formed governmental enactment by students, took to the streets successful Dhaka and issued an ultimatum to prohibition the Awami League enactment by Saturday night.

The student-led uprising ended Hasina's 15 years of rule, and 3 days aft her autumn Yunus took the helm arsenic interim leader.