Bangladesh restored on Sunday the registration of the Jamaat-E-Islami party, allowing him to participate in the elections, more than a decade after he was withdrawn under the now overloaded government.
The Supreme Court revoked a cancellation of the Jamaat-E-Islami registry, allowing it to formally listed as a political party with the Electoral Commission.
“The Electoral Commission is ordered to deal with that party in accordance with the law,” said Towhydul Islam commission lawyer AFP
The lawyer of the Jamaat-E-Islami party, Shishir Monir, said that the decision of the Supreme Court would allow a “democratic, inclusive and multiparty system” in the Muslim majority of 170 million people.
“We hope that the Bangladesí, regardless of their ethnicity or religious identity, vote for Jamat, and that Parliament will be vibrant with constructive debates,” Monir told journalists.
After Sheikh Hasina was expelled as prime minister in August, the party requested a review of the Order of the Superior Court of 2013 that prohibits it.
Sunday’s decision occurs after the Supreme Court on May 27 revoked a sentence against a key leader of Jamaat-E-Islami, Atm Azharul Islam.
He had been sentenced to death in 2014 for rape, murder and genocide during the 1971 War of Bangladesh with Pakistan.
Jamaat-e-Islami supported Islamabad during the war, a role that still causes anger among many Bangladesi today.
They were rivals of Hasina’s father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of the Awami League, which would become the founding figure of Bangladesh.
Hasina prohibited Jamaat-E-Islami during his term and took energetic measures against their leaders.
In May, Bangladesh’s interim government prohibited the Awami League, waiting for the result of a trial for its offensive against mass protests that caused their expulsion last year.
Bangladesh to open the fugitive ex-PM trial
Meanwhile, Bangladesh will open the judgment on Sunday of former fugitive prime minister Sheikh Hasina for charges of crimes against humanity related to the murders of the protesters by the police, prosecutors said.
The chief prosecutor of the ICT, Tajul Islam, said on May 12 that Hasina faces at least five positions, which include “incitement, incitement, complicity, facilitation, conspiracy and lack of preventing mass murders during the July uprising.”
“The prosecution team … is ready to present charges against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,” said Gazi MH Tamim, one of the prosecutors.
The audience is expected to be broadcast live on Bangladesh state television.
