B’desh interim govt plans ordinance to protect ‘July warriors’ from prosecution : PTI

DHAKA, January 7: Bangladesh’s interim government plans to proclaim an ordinance to protect from prosecution the 2024 “July warriors” whose violent street protests toppled then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League regime, media reports said on Tuesday.

The mass circulation Prothom Alo and Ittefaq newspapers said that initiatives were underway to proclaim the ordinance to protect the “July warriors” from the law.

According to reports, a meeting chaired by Home Adviser Lt. Gen. (retd.) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Monday decided to proclaim the instance of one such law enacted by the post-independence Awami League government for the freedom fighters of the 1971 Liberation War | PTI