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| AQIS’ Bangladesh wing Ansar al-Islam banned |
| 2017-03-06 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] The government has declared outlawed Ansar al-Islam, the Bangladesh chapter of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), which is responsible for over a dozen attacks on war crimes trial campaigners, secularists and LGBT rights activists in the last couple of years. Ansar al-Islam becomes the seventh banned myrmidon group of the country. The Home Ministry issued a gazette notification in this regard on March 1. |
| Posted by:Fred |