After 28 days, the order to ban Jamaat-Shibir was withdrawn

After just 28 days, the interim government has revoked the order banning Jamaat-e-Islami and its student organization Islami Chhatra Shibir. This decision will be effective immediately on Wednesday (August 28), the notification said. And as a result of this decision of the government, Jamaat-Shibir is no longer a 'terrorist organization' in the eyes of the state.

The notification of the Ministry of Home Affairs said that the government has not received any specific evidence of involvement in terrorism and violence against Jamaat-e-Islami, its student organization Islami Chhatrashibir or any of its affiliates. Since the Government believes that the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and all its constituent organizations including Bangladesh Islami Chhatrashibir are not involved in terrorist activities, the Government, under the powers conferred by Section 18 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2009, the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its student organization Bangladesh Islami Canceled the notification dated August 1 of this department regarding the banning of all its affiliated organizations including Chhatra Shibir as political parties and organizations and canceled the registration of Bangladesh Jamaat Islami and its student organization Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir from Schedule-2 of the said Act.

Incidentally, on August 1, Jamaat-e-Islami, Islami Chhatra Shibir and their affiliated organizations were banned for allegedly carrying out 'terrorist activities' in the anti-discrimination student movement during the last period of the Awami League government. Along with this, according to the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2009, the Ministry of Home Affairs issued a notification listing Jamaat and all its affiliated organizations as 'terrorist entities'.

According to the government's executive order, in several cases of the International Criminal Tribunal, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (formerly Jamaat-e-Islami/Jamaate Islami Bangladesh) and its affiliated organization Bangladesh Islami Chhatrashibir (formerly Islami Chhatra Sangh) were accused of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War in 1971. considered responsible. Besides, the High Court canceled the registration of Jamaat-e-Islami as a political party in the Election Commission in a writ case. The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court also upheld it. WHEREAS, the Government has sufficient information to prove that the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its affiliate Bangladesh Islami Chhatrashibir were directly and indirectly involved in the recent massacres, destructive activities and terrorist activities; AND WHEREAS, the Government believes that all its affiliates, including the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and the Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir, are involved in terrorist activities; Therefore, the Government, by virtue of Section 18(1) of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2009, banned Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and all its affiliates including Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir as political parties and organizations and in Schedule-II of the said Act, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and Bangladesh Listed all its affiliates, including the Islami Chhatra Shibir, as banned entities.

Lawyer Shishir Monir, a former leader of Islami Chhatra Shibir, told reporters on Wednesday afternoon that when the new interim government came to power after the fall of the Awami League government, a petition signed by the secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami was submitted to the government on August 22. The decision to ban Jamaat-Shibir was appealed there. The reports of DGFI, NSI and SB are called for on the basis of this application and the report is submitted to the Ministry of Home Affairs. The three agencies found no involvement in alleged terrorist activities with the Islamic and Islamic Student Camps in Ojamaya. After that, a review panel was constituted as per the requirements of section 19 as per the law. They also did not find any evidence to support the allegations. Accordingly, the matter was presented to the Home Advisor. After his signature, after all the proceedings of the Chief Counsel and the Legal Counsel, it was decided that the notification which was issued in the past, was declared cancelled.

Shishir Monir commented that this decision has been taken according to each section and sub-section of the law and said that the process was a little long. But we also want to obey the law, so that no one has any objection. No one can ever say that Jamaat-e-Islami acted outside the law.

Bangladesh /KH