In another blow to Bangladesh’s fundamentalist Jammat-e-Islami, the Cabinet on Monday decided to strip the voting rights of people convicted of “crimes against humanity” during the 1971 liberation war.
“The Cabinet has approved the proposal to permanently erase from the voters list the names of those convicted under the Bangladesh Collaborators (Special Tribunals) Order 1972 and the International Crimes Act,” Cabinet Secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said.
He said the Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina endorsed the draft law that suggested that the name of a person would be removed from the electoral roll or would not be included in the voters list if he or she was found guilty by the Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal under the two laws.