Men run past a shopping center which was set on fire by protesters during a rally against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government demanding justice for the victims killed in the recent countrywide deadly clashes, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A report by the UN Human Rights Office…
School girls sit in a classroom, in Dhaka, on August 7, 2024, after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh. | Photo Credit: AFP Bangladesh on Sunday (August 18, 2024) reopened all educational institutions, including universities, secondary schools and colleges, across the country after more than a month of closure due to violence centring the…
The United Nations report stressed the need for a rapid restoration of law and order. File | Photo Credit: AP The United Nations said on Friday (August 16, 2024) there were strong indications that the Bangladeshi security forces used unnecessary force in tackling the student-led uprising that ousted premier Sheikh Hasina. Ms. Hasina, 76, fled…
Mobs vowing to guard Bangladesh’s student-led revolution roamed the site of a planned rally for ousted premier Sheikh Hasina on Thursday (August 15, 2024), beating up some of her suspected supporters with bamboo rods and pipes. Ms. Hasina, 76, fled to neighbouring India by helicopter last week as student-led protests flooded Dhaka’s streets in a…
A member of the Bangladeshi Hindu community looks on while holding a banner against violence targeting the country’s minorities during a protest in Dhaka on August 9, 2024, days after a student-led uprising ended the 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina. Some businesses and homes owned by Hindus were attacked following Hasina’s ousting, and the group…
As dawn approached on Saturday morning of July 20, 2024 a disturbing scene unfolded in Monsur Nagar Housing Estate in Savar upazila, on the outskirts of Dhaka. Some eight to 10 plainclothes men identifying themselves as being from the detective branch (DB) of Bangladesh Police, surrounded the home of Abul Khair, a 70-year-old, who had…
People participate in a rally against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government demanding justice for the victims killed in the recent countrywide deadly clashes, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP India on Sunday night (August 4) strongly advised all its nationals presently residing in Bangladesh to exercise “extreme caution”…
People participate in a protest march against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government to demand justice for the victims killed in the recent countrywide deadly clashes, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called an emergency meeting with university vice-chancellors and college principals on Saturday…
University students shout slogans during a protest to demand justice for the victims killed in the recent countrywide deadly clashes and ask for their campuses to be opened, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, July 31, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Police in Bangladesh fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse people who were demonstrating on…
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