The Bangladesh Awami League has strongly condemned the weaponisation of the judiciary and state-sponsored persecution under the Yunus regime, as the party asserts that this step marks another testament to the ongoing witch hunt against the party.
In 11 months, people have lost faith in the judicial system as the Yunus-led regime has reduced this key state organ into a means to prosecute dissenters. Top criminals and dreaded militants have been granted bail, the party said in a statement on Thursday.
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Under Yunus, the country witnessed an unprecedented wave of mob attacks on illegally detained dissenters inside court premises in broad daylight, stripping away the fundamental rights of those framed on motivated charges.
Judges are now dictated to by the Yunus-backed mob inside the court. To deny legal rights to arbitrarily detained victims, the regime sponsored attacks on lawyers who seek to provide legal services, eroding fairness and transparency in the judiciary, the statement said.
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This series of state-sponsored repression and impunity for the attackers clearly testified that the judiciary has fallen to mob rule. The intimidation of judges and lawyers, embodying the hallmarks of jungle rule, has made the outcome of the trial a foregone conclusion.
Moreover, the state had appointed a lawyer for our party president, who publicly demanded her execution on a Facebook post after denying her rights to appoint a lawyer she would have chosen as her defense.
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In contrast to the UN recommendations, the regime has banned our party and, to justify the illegal ban, abused the judiciary, another coercive measure validated by a kangaroo court.
โWe also urge the global community not to fall for scores of manufactured audio clips targeting our president prepared by the regime enablers, which are amplified on social media by pro-Yunus supporters, cited by prosecutors, and accepted by judges for issuing sentences against the regime.โ
On the other hand, use of the very tribunal that has been where perpetrators of 1971 war crimes were tried and appointment of the very lawyers who defended the war criminals as prosecutors brought to light a series of motivated steps to turn the trial into a weapon in Yunusโs state-sponsored arsenal against dissenters, including the Awami League.
By resorting to this kangaroo court, the Yunus regime has denied the July-August victims justice and legitimised abuse of the judiciary to decimate opposition, let alone stoke ongoing persecution, including extrajudicial killings of citizens for their affiliation with the Awami Leagueโall repressive steps that violate universal human rights.
โWhile we reiterate our commitment to a fair trial for July-August victims, we repeatedly express no confidence in the current trial process,โ the statement added.
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