The press secretary placed three conditions for the former ruling party to secure permissions to demonstrate: the party must apologise for its mass corruption activities and mass killings perpetrated during its 15-year illegal stay in power, criminal party members must surrender before the law, and non-culpable party members must sever ties with its current fascist ideology and fascist leadership.
The interim government represents the people of Bangladesh and will not allow any attempt to push the country back into the days of violence. Anyone taking to streets in support of Awami League’s unpermitted movement will have to face the law, he Shafiqul Alam warned.
To dispel any notion of the government’s potential crackdown on dissent, Shafiqul clarified authorities have permitted over a hundred protest movements since assuming power about six months ago. The government has not banned any logical protest movement, the press secretary said referring to a media report on over 136 protest movements waged in the capital alone over the last five and a half months.
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