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The interim government of Bangladesh, led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, on Wednesday lifted a ban on Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its affiliated organization, Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir. Earlier this month, former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s administration enforced a ban on Jamaat-e-Islami, citing allegations of destructive activities, killings, and terrorist activities during the quota [...]

Ali Riaz is a political scientist with research interests in South Asian politics, democratization, violent extremism, and Bangladeshi politics. He is a Distinguished Professor of political science at Illinois State University, a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council, and the President of the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS). His recent publications include “Pathways [...]

Far-right movements gaining popularity in many European countries are primarily anti-immigrant and anti-Islam. This study examines Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a far-right political party in Germany. Founded in 2013, the party launched the AfD manifesto, a public document approved at its Federal Party Congress held in Stuttgart from April 30 to May 1 2016. Presently, [...]

The UN will send a team of experts to Bangladesh next week to investigate the killings of protesters that occurred before and after Sheikh Hasina’s resignation as Prime Minister last week, officials announced on Thursday. This mission marks the first time since Bangladesh’s independence in 1971 that the UN has initiated a fact-finding mission to [...]

The UN Human Rights Office (UNHRC) said that there is a credible probability of “unnecessary” use of force by the Bangladeshi security forces against the student-led protesters that ousted the last government from power, in a report released on Friday. In its report, the UNHRC raises various human rights concerns regarding the conduct of the [...]

The Bangladesh Editors’ Council called for the government to withdraw cases against journalists under anti-free-press laws on Monday. Editors’ Council’s president Mahfuz Anam, editor and publisher of Bangladesh newspaper The Daily Star, hosted the discussion in the Daily Star offices. The statement was made after police and government reactions to student protests in Bangladesh triggered [...]

Muhammad Yunus, the interim leader of Bangladesh, was acquitted Sunday in a corruption case by a special court in Dhaka, according to an official of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) who spoke to The Daily Star. Yunus, a Nobel laureate, was acquitted by Judge Muhammed Rabiul Alam of the Special Judge’s Court-4 of Dhaka along with [...]

Bangladesh’s Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan resigned on Saturday following a series of protests in Dhaka. The resignation was confirmed by Aisf Nazrul, the acting minister of law, justice and parliamentary affairs in the interim government. The Anti-Discrimination Student Movement led the protests, demanding the immediate resignation of the chief justice and the judges of the [...]

Bangladesh Government authorities announced Tuesday that Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize laureate renowned for his work in microcredit markets and a well-known critic and political opponent of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, will lead the country’s interim government. This significant development comes in the wake of Hasina’s resignation and subsequent flight from the country [...]

The author, a visiting scholar at Cornell University School of Law, explores the impact on three years of since the Taliban banned education for girls in Afghanistan. It has been three years that the Taliban imposed a ban on secondary and university education for girls in Afghanistan. The initial ban was decreed by the Taliban’s [...]