The BNP leader said that the present illegitimate authoritarian government, after burying democracy in the ground, is suppressing all opposition parties and dissidents, including the BNP, to take the country into the darkest of one-party misrule.
Continuing this repression, on 29 July Abu Yusuf Selim was arrested for holding a sit-in, which was part of an ongoing movement against the government. Mirza Fakhrul said that Abu Yusuf Selim has become seriously ill in the jail and he is being denied better treatment.