The banning order of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir was withdrawn on Wednesday (28 August).

Advocate Mohammad Shishir Manir, the lawyer for Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, has said that the government has withdrawn the notification issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs that banned the politics of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir. The gazette will be published soon.

On 1 August, the Awami League government banned Jamaat-e-Islami, its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir and all of its front organisations as political parties and entities under the Anti-Terrorism Act-2009.

On 5 August, Sheikh Hasina resigned as prime minister and fled the country in the face of a mass uprising against her AL government.