MADRID Dec. 5 (EUROPA PRESS) –
A special court in Bangladesh ordered this Thursday to prohibit the dissemination through the media, online platforms and social networks of the “hate speech” of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was forced to resign and leave the country last year. month of August following a strong wave of protests that left more than 200 dead.
The judges of the International Crimes Court, which judges the cases opened against the former president and several senior officials for the repression during the demonstrations, have now indicated that these speeches must be “blocked” to prevent Hasina’s violent ideas from spreading.
Thus, they have ordered the Bangladeshi authorities to remove the materials that have already been disseminated and guarantee that no new cases of this type occur, according to information collected by the newspaper ‘The Daily Star’.
The country’s Prosecutor’s Office considers that these hate speeches could end up “intimidating victims and witnesses or obstructing investigations” opened against the authorities and Hasina herself for the measures adopted to quell the protests that began as an opposition to the quota law for access public employment and ended up becoming a clear rejection of the Government of the former prime minister, who is still in India.
Last October, the Bangladesh Justice Department issued an arrest warrant against the former prime minister, accused of committing alleged crimes against humanity in relation to the high number of deaths during the demonstrations. Likewise, 45 other senior officials – some of them members of the Awami League party – have also been subject to these types of orders.
Hasina’s Awami League has been one of the main parties blamed for the violence of those weeks after hundreds of its supporters took to the streets to confront the young students who led the protests.
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