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Bangladesh interim govt intensifies attacks against Awami League, social media pages may be blocked

Dhaka, May 14 (UNI) Bangladesh’s National Cyber Security Agency (NCSA) has requested the country’s Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to immediately block or remove all websites and social media pages affiliated with the Awami League party and like-minded organisations, following its official ban by Chief Advisor Mohammed Yunus’ interim government.
The NCSA, in a letter, also requested the BTRC to ask platforms such as Meta (Facebook), X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, and TikTok, to block all social media handles linked to the ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina – led party, according to The Daily Star.
The move comes after the government banned all activities of the Awami League and its affiliated organisations until the end of ongoing trials against its members at the International Crimes Tribunal.
Regarding the ban, the party earlier wrote on its X: “The ban on Awami League is no isolated crackdown—it’s a strategic erasure. Under Yunus’s interim regime, the state is being re-engineered: opposition silenced, electoral history rewritten, and institutions reshaped to cement authoritarian control.”
In addition, the party has also accused the Mohammed Yunus government of sabotaging the country’s economy, promoting rampant Islamisation, and destroying Bangladesh’s socio-political structures, citing the deterioration of law and order, and the inability of the Yunus government to tackle the ongoing social instability.
Additionally, the Election Commission of Bangladesh has suspended the Awami League's registration as a political party, barring it from participating in the national polls.
The move comes as a severe blow to the country’s history and its once secular-pluralistic socio-political fabric, as the Awami League is the country’s oldest party, predating its very formation and also having led the 1971 Liberation War.
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