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Sheikh Hasina

August 2024

  • Teaching staff from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology show support for the student protesters. One placard reads 'We stand with our students' and another reads 'Every lie is a debt to the truth. Sooner or later the debt is paid'

    Bangladesh arrests more than 10,000 in crackdown on protests

    Student protests that began over government-job quotas have led to mass roundups, says families of detainees

July 2024

  • Protesters clash with police

    Protesters attack Bangladeshi state broadcaster after PM’s call for calm

    Incensed crowd facing riot police set BTV building on fire as students demand end to discriminatory job quotas

January 2024

  • Sheikh Hasina talking to the media after casting her vote.

    Hasina wins fifth term as Bangladesh PM after opposition boycotts vote

    Turnout reportedly as low as 40% after opposition party called general strike over ‘sham election’
  • A polling officer places indelible ink on the finger of Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina after she arrived to cast her vote in Dhaka.

    Polls open in Bangladesh election guaranteed to hand Sheikh Hasina a fifth term

    Already decimated by mass arrests, opposition parties have boycotted the ‘sham’ election, which will give victory to the ruling Awami League
  • Muhammad Yunus steps outside court in Dhaka.

    Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus convicted of violating Bangladesh’s labour laws

    Prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has accused 83-year-old of ‘sucking blood’ from poor people

May 2023

  • Protesters take to the streets of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka , to challenge the Digital Security Act.

    Rights and freedom
    Bangladesh media in fear after PM’s ‘people’s enemy’ attack

    Even stories on cost of living leave journalists facing assault, threats and arrest under Digital Security Act

January 2023

  • Bangladesh National Party (BNP) supporters take to the streets of Barisal earlier this month to demand the resignation of prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

    ‘They beat me with sticks’: Bangladesh opposition reels under crackdown as thousands arrested

    Police accused of shooting at activists and leaders of growing street protests against Sheikh Hasina’s draconian government

December 2022

  • Supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist party gathering during a rally in Comilla on 26 November.

    Two Bangladeshi opposition leaders arrested in government crackdown

    Seven killed and thousands arrested as Hasina regime continues repressive campaign against opponents

January 2019

  • Sheikh Hasina

    Bangladeshi journalist arrested for reporting election irregularities

    Police also want to question another journalist for reporting ‘false information’ about voting

December 2018

  • Voters queue outside a polling station in Dhaka on Sunday.

    Bangladesh PM Hasina wins thumping victory in elections opposition reject as 'farcical'

  • Bangladesh’s prime minister Sheikh Hasina speaks ahead of Sunday’s election, which has been described as the ‘most-stifled’ in half a century

    Bangladesh election: Sheikh Hasina heads for tainted victory

November 2018

  • Shahidul Alam after his release from Dhaka’s central prison on 20 November.

    Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam released from prison

    Activist held since Dhaka gripped by massive student protests in August

April 2018

  • British United Nations Ambassador Karen Pierce consoles a twelve-year-old Rohingya refugee near Cox’s Bazar, in Bangladesh, April 29, 2018. REUTERS/Michelle Nichols

    UN security council overwhelmed by suffering at Rohingya camps

    Delegation visiting refugee camps in Bangladesh hear pleas for action by the UN and involvement of the international criminal court

May 2017

  • BANGLADESH-CRIME-MEDIA-POLITICS<br>Mahfuz Anam (C), editor of Bangladesh's most-circulated English newspaper The Daily Star, walks from a court in northern Rangpur district after securing bail on March 1, 2016 over a defamation case filed against him by pro-government activists. A court granted one of Bangladesh's top newspaper editors bail on March 1 following a spate of defamation suits from government supporters over reports alleging corruption against the now prime minister. AFP PHOTO / AFP / STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)

    Bangladeshi editor who faced 83 lawsuits says press freedom under threat

    Awami League-controlled government is charging and jailing writers using vague new laws against ‘prejudicing state’s image’

August 2016

  • Greenslade
    Press freedom groups call on Bangladesh minister to free journalist

    Shafik Rehman has spent more than three months in custody without charge

June 2016

  • Senior Bangladesh journalist Shafik Rehman arrested in Dhaka<br>epa05262998 A picture made available on 17 April 2016 shows senior Bangladeshi journalist Shafik Rehman (C, blue shirt) flashing the V-sign as he is escorted by law and enforcement officials after being granted a five-day remand in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 16 April 2016. Shafik Rehman, 81, was arrested for alleged sedition. According to media reports quoting the police, Rehman has been held after being linked in a case allegedly plotting the abduction and murder of the prime minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy. EPA/STRINGER

    Greenslade
    Family concern over journalist held without charge in Bangladesh

  • Victims of attacks by extremists.

    Inside Bangladesh’s killing fields: bloggers and outsiders targeted by fanatics

April 2016

  • Shafik Rehman is escorted by law enforcement officials in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 16 April.

    81-year-old Bangladeshi-British editor held on 'farcical' charges, son says

    Son of Shafik Rehman, held in Bangladesh on suspicion of sedition, says his father ‘wouldn’t hurt a mosquito’
  • Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister of Bangladesh

    Bangladesh's pluralism is at risk if Sheikh Hasina does not stop extremists

    Murders of gay activists and secularists highlight culture of impunity, with Hasina and Awami League accused of failing to act
  • Senior Editor Shafik Rehman Arrested In Dhaka<br>DHAKA, BANGLADESH - APRIL 16: Police arrest senior journalist and editor Shafik Rehman, an adviser to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a case filed over a ‘conspiracy to abduct and murder' Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy on April 16, 2016 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Later in the afternoon, Rehman was presented before a Dhaka court which granted police a five-day remand to question Rehman. PHOTOGRAPH BY Rehman Asad / Barcroft India UK Office, London. T +44 845 370 2233 W www.barcroftmedia.com USA Office, New York City. T +1 212 796 2458 W www.barcroftusa.com Indian Office, Delhi. T +91 11 4053 2429 W www.barcroftindia.com

    Greenslade
    Prominent Bangladeshi journalist arrested for act of sedition

    Shafik Rehman, 82, is remanded in custody on a charge of conspiracy to murder the prime minister’s son
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