DHAKA: Bangladesh police have arrested former Awami League MP Saddam Hossain Pavel together with seven different leaders and activists affiliated to the celebration on prices of “planning and financing subversive actions”, native media reported. In line with a press launch issued by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s media wing on Friday, former Awami League MP Saddam was taken into custody on Thursday evening throughout a raid within the Capital’s Mohammadpur space.
Moreover, the opposite seven have been arrested on the identical evening throughout separate raids carried out by the police throughout Dhaka. The discharge additional famous that instances have been filed in opposition to all these arrested in numerous police stations on particular prices. They have been reportedly accused of being concerned in “organising and destabilising” the nation by disrupting regulation and order and holding sudden processions in numerous elements of the Capital, the police mentioned.
Citing courtroom sources, Bangladeshi each day The Enterprise Normal reported {that a} Dhaka courtroom despatched Saddam to jail on prices of tried homicide throughout final yr’s July demonstrations. Dhaka Metropolitan Justice of the Peace Partha Bhadra issued the order after police produced him earlier than the courtroom on Friday.
These newest developments come amid the continuing crackdown on Awami League leaders and the activists related to the celebration, underneath the Muhammad Yunus-led interim authorities.
Final month, Bangladesh police arrested one other 1,593 Awami League leaders and activists in a nationwide operation, native media reported.
Just lately, the Awami League’s media cell reported that the nation is witnessing an alarming surge in “faux authorized instances, mob violence, and political revenge” underneath the Yunus regime.
The celebration highlighted a “collapse of the justice system” in Bangladesh amid a “tsunami of pretend instances” because the fall of the democratically elected Awami League authorities led by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Analysts reckon the developments as a serious political vendetta being pursued by the Yunus regime, as a number of instances have been filed in opposition to the previous Prime Minister Hasina and her celebration members on frivolous grounds instantly following her ouster in August 2024.