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Bangladesh’s interim authorities of Muhammad Yunus connected Thursday (January 15, 2026) approved a draught ordinance to indemnify from prosecution the protesters who led the demonstrations that toppled past Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League authorities connected August 5, 2024.
At a property briefing, Law Adviser Asif Nazrul said “the July revolutionists” were indemnified for the acts they committed with an purpose of “political resistance” during the uprising nether the “July Mass Uprising Protection and Accountability Ordinance”.
“We had announced this earlier. It was our committedness to the July revolutionists,” helium said, emerging from a gathering of the advisory assembly chaired by Mr. Yunus.
Mr. Nazrul said the “political resistance” successful the lawsuit of the ordinance “meant the acts committed by July revolutionists to reconstruct antiauthoritarian governance strategy toppling the fascist government”.
He said the authorities would retreat if immoderate lawsuit was filed by present and nary caller lawsuit could beryllium lodged against the July revolutionists, often called “July warriors”.
The adviser, however, added the instrumentality would not spare anyone who murdered others successful July and August for immoderate idiosyncratic oregon constrictive interest.
The improvement came implicit a week aft an inter-ministerial gathering asked the Law Ministry to rapidly draught an indemnity ordinance for those progressive successful the student-led uprising.
