Awami League

Which, I don't know, kind of makes him a terrorist in the 11th Circuit based literally on its own Islam v. DHS decision from episode 56? What a wild profession.

Anyway, he fled once the Awami League came to power, the other political party, and began persecuting him, and he got LPR status through his U.S. citizen wife.

They have two children together.

He didn't naturalize.

But more importantly, it seems no one thinks it is currently as bad in Bangladesh for BNP folks as when Mr. Islam first fled.

And most importantly to the Third Circuit, no evidence that Mr. Islam would be singled out.

And maybe most, most importantly, on appeal, the Awami League Prime Minister was ousted following protests.

Remember that? Those student protests, I think? And currently, conditions apparently are greatly improved.

Professor Muhammad Yunus took over as caretaker, and then in February this year, Feb 26, the Tariq Rahman government came in.

The elected BNP government came in, elected, of course, after holding an election where Awami League was banned from contesting.

Now, in the process, a couple of things happened.

One, the government had not drawn all of its loan.

On September 26th, police arrested 290 participants at a JSD meeting in Dhaka.

The raid occurred after Jubo Dal, the youth wing of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party, claimed it was a secret gathering of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's now banned Awami League.

The JSD was formerly part of Hasina's 14-party alliance A court remanded 27 people because they allegedly chanted Joy Bangla or Victory to Bengal.

The Awami League governed from 2009 until student protests toppled it in 2024, leaving hundreds dead by security forces.

Despite enduring severe repression themselves, the BNP, elected in February, has arbitrarily jailed hundreds of Awami League members, mostly without charge, and rolled back interim human rights safeguards.

On September 26th, Barisal District Police detained 12 activists for planning sabotage.

Two days later, 15 were arrested in Dhaka under the 2009 Anti-Terrorism Act.