A Bangladeshi court ordered an investigation into former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s alleged involvement in the death of a grocery shop owner during the country’s violent demonstrations, which resulted in the longtime leader fleeing to India last week, Reuters reported. The probe marks the first investigation...
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Bangladesh’s President Mohammed Shahabuddin dissolved parliament on Tuesday following the resignation and exile of longtime Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, while a renowned Nobel prize winner was appointed the country’s new leader, Reuters reported. On Monday, following a fresh outbreak of violence over the weekend in which...
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On July 16, two police officers clashing with student protesters at Begum Rokeya University in the northwestern Bangladeshi city of Rangpur allegedly fired 12-gauge shotguns into the chest of 25-year-old student protest organizer Abu Sayed. The birdshot in the shotguns, illegal for suppressing public demonstrations,...
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Fresh protests erupted across Bangladesh over the weekend, killing at least 91 people, after thousands took to the country’s streets demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina following widespread accusations of excessive force and government mismanagement, Al Jazeera reported. Violence erupted in multiple cities as...
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Bangladesh’s top court rolled back a series of quotas on government jobs Sunday, quotas that had sparked violent nationwide protests in which more than 100 people were killed and saw the shuttering of universities across the country, CNN reported. Student-led demonstrations have gripped Bangladesh over the...
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Clashes among groups of university students broke out across Bangladesh this week, leaving five people dead and dozens injured in protests against a scheme setting quotas for government jobs that go to war veterans’ relatives – which critics say benefits the ruling party, the Associated...
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A Bangladeshi court on Wednesday indicted Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus and 13 others on embezzlement charges, the latest accusations against the respected economist that many of his supporters say are politically motivated, the Associated Press reported. The prosecution accused Yunus and other defendants of embezzling around...
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The prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, recently launched her ruling Awami League party’s campaign for the South Asian country’s general election on Jan. 7. Speaking at a massive rally in the eastern city of Sylhet, reported the Associated Press, Hasina blamed the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist...
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A Bangladeshi court this week convicted Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus and three others over labor law violations, a verdict that critics described as politically motivated as the South Asian nation prepares for general elections this weekend, the Independent reported. A Dhaka labor court found...
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At least two people died and dozens were injured in Bangladesh on Tuesday, following clashes between anti-government protesters and police on the first day of a three-day demonstration calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ahead of next year’s election, Reuters reported. The protests...
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Bangladesh will tone down its Digital Security Act (DSA) by replacing it with a new law, following years of criticism that the “draconian” legislation has been used by the government to suppress dissent and freedom of speech, Al Jazeera reported this week. On Monday, Law Minister...
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The foreign minister of Bangladesh recently called ambassadors from the United States, Britain, France, and 10 other Western countries together in Dhaka to complain about their condemnation of an attack on a political candidate running against the country’s ruling Awami League (AL) party’s candidate. However, it...
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At least one person died and hundreds were injured across Bangladesh this week, after tens of thousands of opposition supporters took to the streets calling for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to step down ahead of elections early next year, Al Jazeera reported. The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist...
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A huge fire ripped through a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh at the weekend, leaving around 12,000 displaced people without shelter, the Guardian reported. Officials said the blaze occurred Sunday at Camp 11 in Cox’s Bazar, a southeastern border district where more than a million...
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The only newspaper of Bangladesh’s main opposition party stopped publishing this week after a government suspension order was upheld by a government-affiliated body, raising concerns about the country’s press freedoms and political plurality, Agence France-Presse reported. The Dainik Dinkal had been the voice of the Bangladesh...
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Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka over the weekend to protest soaring prices while demanding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resign, CNN reported. The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) organized Saturday’s protest, saying that the prime minister had failed to...
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Thousands of political activists in Bangladesh are facing charges of incitement with the opposition and human rights groups saying these are part of a widespread government crackdown against its critics, Al Jazeera reported Tuesday. Bangladeshi opposition parties have been holding a series of protests across the...
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Indian investigators recently busted an alleged human trafficking ring that was smuggling ethnic Rohingya girls into India from refugee camps in Bangladesh. It’s just the latest misfortune to befall members of this ethnic group who have been forced from their homes and put into limbo. Six years...
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Bangladesh will ban questions regarding the “immoral character” of rape victims after a landmark decision that follows years of campaigning by women’s rights groups against the humiliating and traumatizing interrogations of survivors, Agence France-Presse reported Tuesday. Officials said that the government plans to amend the Evidence...
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