Bangladesh Nationalist Party

Mr. Islam is from Bangladesh and was admitted to the United States as a lawful permanent resident in 2009.

He joined the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the BNP, one of the country's two biggest political parties.

He regularly attended meetings for BNP members and volunteered to help organize BNP rallies and distribute leaflets.

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.

Whoosh.

We're not done yet, though, because there's a cat claim.

It's true that apparently at present, or at least at the time of adjudication, there was, quote, record evidence of the human rights violations and threats that BNP supporters were facing around the time of Mr. Islam's merits hearing, including mass arrests of BNP members, attacks at BNP rallies, and targeting of BNP leaders.

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.