Rights group seeks UN intervention after Awami League ban in Bangladesh

Paris, Dec 8 (IANS) A leading international human rights organisation wrote to the United Nations Special Rapporteur, raising alarm over the ban imposed on Bangladesh’s Awami League party and the suspension of its registration by the country’s Election Commission.

In its complaint to the Office of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, Justice Makers Bangladesh in France (JMBF) called for urgent international attention and intervention to restore democratic processes in the country.