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Bangladesh’s Awami League has rejected the February 2026 election schedule, calling it illegal and warning that polls without the party will deepen the national crisis.

GM Quader declared that Bangladesh cannot hold a credible national election without both the Awami League and Jatiya Party, warning of unrest if his party is excluded.

Jurists and rights defenders urge the Yunus-led interim government to reopen investigations into 1,199 extrajudicial killings under Khaleda Zia and 333 deaths during the 2007–08 caretaker regime. Selective prosecutions risk turning Bangladesh’s new justice drive into a political purge while past custodial killings remain untried.

In New York, exiled Bangladeshi leaders accused Muhammad Yunus of fascist rule, mass killings, economic collapse, and foreign-backed Islamist takeover at The Voice’s diaspora forum.