B’desh: 25 Awami League leaders, activists arrested for taking out flash processions

Dhaka: In yet another incident of suppression of political dissent in Bangladesh under the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government, the police have arrested at least 25 leaders and activists of the Awami League and its affiliated bodies, including from its student wing Chhatra League, after a series of flash processions in the Khulna city.

The police in separate drives on Sunday night arrested 25 leaders and activists of Awami League, banned Chhatra League, and a Jubo League, the youth wing of the party in connection with the flash processions, Bangladeshi media outlet UNB reported, quoting Additional Deputy Commissioner (Media & CP) of Khulna Metropolitan Police Ahsan Habib.

The former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League staged a flash procession on Sunday morning in Khulna city, following the interim government’s orders to prevent such processions. The rally organised under the banner of Bangladesh Awami League, Khulna District Unit, was the first such demonstration in the area since the fall of the Awami League government.

Videos from the scene showed protestors holding a banner featuring portraits of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Sheikh Hasina, the country’s leading daily, Prothom Alo, reported. The slogans such as, “Sheikh Hasina, we are not afraid, we have not left the streets,” “Sheikh Hasina’s government, needed again and again,” and “Sheikh Hasina will return like a hero” were raised, said the report. (IANS)

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