The police have arrested 11 more leaders and activists of the Awami League, activities of which are now banned, and its affiliated organisations from different parts of the capital Dhaka on charges of disrupting law and order by bringing out flash processions.
Several teams of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police鈥檚 Detective Branch carried out operations and arrested them between 9:00pm on Tuesday and 7:00am on Wednesday, said a DMP press release issued on Wednesday.
Among the arrestees, seven were leaders of the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League, who came from Gopalganj鈥檚 Kotalipara with the aim of deteriorating the law and order situation in the capital, said the press release.
Leaders and activists of the AL and its associates have recently been staging flash processions across the capital despite law enforcers鈥� strict stance on such processions. The law enforcers arrested a number of leaders and activists of the AL and its associates over such processions.
On October 23 past year, the interim government banned the BCL under the Anti-Terrorism Act on allegations of its involvement in breaching public security in various ways in the past 15 years.
In May this year, the government banned all activities by the Awami League until the completion of the trials of its leaders and activists for allegedly perpetrating atrocities in the July uprising which ousted the authoritarian AL regime in August past year.
