Bangladesh has been in a state of emergency for over six months now since the President usurped the constitutionally entrenched non-partisan caretaker process. What does an individual's judicial expression look like under a state of emergency? Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury describes it. (more)
Bangladesh
has been a subject of many articles here, mainly because of the non-caretaker government institution, and more recently how that was subverted by the President such that Bangladesh was placed into a state of emergency. Asif of Unheard Voices, a Bangladeshi blog,
writes on the leaders of parties being exiled
by the current emergency government.
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From the SMH
:
as Muhammad Yunus, last year's Nobel Peace Prize winner and the founder of a microfinance empire known as the Grameen Bank, announced he was entering the political fray as the leader of a new party. "There is no way I can stay away from politics any longer - I am determined," he said.(more)
The Washington Post is carrying a letter to the editor from Sheikh Mohammed Belal, a minister at the embassy in Washington DC. It contains several falsehoods. (more)
That non-party caretaker government in Bangladesh which was usurped by the President, citing emergency, has now arrested fourteen (13?) political leaders, including nine former ministers. (more)
Great article on separation of powers as relating to the circumstances in Bangladesh
. Huda focuses on the judiciary in Bangladesh and how it isn't able to pursue or achieve its constitutional function.
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The Bangladesh President has declared a state of emergency. This is a formal one where troops go out on the streets, curfews are enforced and presumably the civil justice system takes a hiatus and executive judicial decisions take over. The President's unconstitutional assumption of the role as chief of the care-taker government was already an example of an executive declaring a state of emergency.
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Harun Ur Rashid ask's:
Is Bangladesh's non-partisan caretaker government working?
His answer is no and he offers six alterations of the constitution to fix the hole the President has run through the constitution before it becomes convention. Rashid comments that constitutions are "not set in stone and already it has undergone fourteen amendments. The last amendment was adopted in May 2004. Another amendment of the Constitution will not make the sky fall.".
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In an article titled The constitutional process, Dr Ahmed Ziauddin writes that the Bangladeshi President broke the constitutionally enforced sequence to appoint himself as Chief Advisor to the Caretaker Government. In essence he acted unconstitutionally and should resign.
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From
ABC News
;
"Bangladeshi President Iajuddin Ahmed has been sworn in as the head of the interim administration that will oversee national elections in January, in a ceremony broadcast live on television"
. As we
discussed last week
, the Bangladeshi Constitution covers the appointment process for the Chief Adviser position in the care-taker government.
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