Overview

• Muhammad Faizul Karim outlined in a US-based interview plans to ban women from public life, enforce burqas, curtail minority rights and expand jihadi training nationwide.
• Karim said a future Islami Andolan Bangladesh government would adopt Afghanistan’s governance model alongside what he called Iran’s “good philosophy” under Sharia law.
• The Awami League has questioned whether Muhammad Yunus’s interim administration is negligent or deliberately complicit in the rising influence of extremist factions.
• Human rights data for June recorded 63 rape cases—including 17 gang rapes—plus 39 incidents of sexual harassment and 51 physical assaults on women.
• Rights groups warn that the Islamist agenda risks worsening violence against women and minorities just weeks before national elections.