Bangladesh

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina asked the party leaders to sit with the  coordinators of the Quota Reform Movement to calm the country’s situation. The party’s presidium member Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Joint General Secretaries Mahbubul Alam Hanif and AFM Bahauddin Nasim have been assigned the responsibility. The ruling Awami League held an emergency meeting at Ganabhaban on Friday night ...

The Anti-Discrimination Students’ Movement has announced nationwide demonstration for Saturday (August 3) and indefinite non-cooperation movement from Sunday in protest against killing attacking their peaceful procession. Asif Mahmud and Rifat Rashid, coordinator and assistant coordinator of the Anti-Discrimination Students’ Movement, announced the programme through Facebook posts and video messages at 8:00pm on Friday (August 2). They also called upon the ...

A police constable was killed and another 25 were injured during clashes between police and protesters in Khulna city on Friday afternoon. The deceased were identified as constable Suman Gharami. Md Mozammel Haque, Khulna Metropolitan Police Commissioner, confirmed the matter. Eyewitnesses said the clash started in front of Khulna University (KU) at around 3:00 PM when police tried to disperse ...

A court in Dhaka has granted bail to 42 HSC examinees who were arrested in connection with the cases filed with different police stations in the capital over violence during the quota reform movement. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rashidul Alam granted them bail in seperate orders on Friday. DMP’s prosecution branch’s deputy commissioner Anisur Rahman confirmed it. Earlier, the Ministry of ...

UNICEF, the UN children’s agency, has expressed deep concern over the death of at least 32 children as well as many arrests and detention in last month’s violence in Bangladesh. “I have just returned from a week in Bangladesh, and I am deeply concerned about the impact of recent violence and ongoing unrest on children,” said Sanjay Wijesekera, UNICEF regional ...

Some 3,011 people have, so far, been arrested in 274 cases filed with different police stations in the capital over the violence during the recent Quota Reform Movement. They were arrested from July 17 to August 1, 2024. Among them, 516 people were sent to jail in a day on July 23. According to the Prosecution Division of Dhaka Metropolitan ...

A day after the release from Detective Branch (DB) custody, six coordinators of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement on Friday morning issued a joint statement saying that they had been held captive ‘forcefully’ for seven days in the name of ‘safety’. Urging the country’s students and citizens to take to the streets ignoring the government’s propaganda and oppression, they vowed to ...

The newly formed Judicial Probe Commission is expected to visit Rangpur on Sunday (August 4) to investigate the deaths and injuries during the violence centering the recent Quota Reform Movement. Commission Chairman Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman told reporters at its makeshift office on the Supreme Court premises in the capital on Thursday afternoon. He said they will visit the places where ...

The government on Thursday banned the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its student front Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir. The Home Ministry issued a notification banning Jamaat and Shibir in the afternoon. The ban of the Islamist political party came unde clause 18 of the Anti-Terrorism Act 2009. The Awami League government has been accusing infiltration of militants from Jamaat and Chhatra Shibir ...

The United Nations has condemned the use of live fire ammunition that they have seen in Bangladesh and laid emphasis on protecting the rights to peaceful protests. It also said that they are ready to assist any government who requests help on different issues. Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN secretary general, came up with the statement while responding to ...