Rallies, protests banned again near State Guest House Jamuna, Secretariat

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) is instituting a prohibition again on all forms of rallies, gatherings, public meetings, marches, and processions near the Secretariat, the State Guest House Jamuna and nearby areas.

The decision was announced in a public notice on Saturday amid protests to ban the Awami League that began with protesters rallying in front of the chief advisor’s official residence on Thursday night.

The restriction will continue indefinitely until further notice, it added.

The notice read, "In the interest of maintaining public order, in accordance with the powers conferred under Section 29 of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Ordinance (Ordinance No. III/76), any kind of meeting, gathering, march, procession, etc., has been banned at the Bangladesh Secretariat and the official residence of the honourable chief advisor, Jamuna, and the surrounding areas from today, May 10, until further notice."

The ban will also apply to the InterContinental Dhaka hotel intersection, the Kakrail intersection, the Officers’ Club intersection and Minto Road, the notice read.

Earlier, the DMP imposed such a ban on all forms of protest on Mar 13.