Bangladesh’s interim government of Muhammad Yunus on Thursday approved a draft ordinance to indemnify from prosecution the protesters who led the demonstrations that toppled then prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League regime on August 5, 2024. It was our commitment to the July revolutionists,” he said, emerging from a meeting of the advisory council chaired by Yunus. Nazrul said the “political resistance” in the case of the ordinance “meant the acts committed by July revolutionists to restore democratic governance system toppling the fascist government”. The development came over a week after an inter-ministerial meeting asked the Law Ministry to quickly draft an indemnity ordinance for those involved in the student-led uprising. Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by The Telegraph Online staff and has been published from a syndicated feed.

Source: The Telegraph January 15, 2026 17:38 UTC