The Take: Why Bangladeshi students say protests aren’t over
After deadly protests, Bangladesh faced days of internet shutdown. What happened during that time?
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After deadly protests, Bangladesh faced days of internet shutdown. What happened during that time?
The authorities in Bangladesh have opened investigations against tens of thousands of people in recent weeks as security forces combed through neighborhoods as part of their deadly crackdown on a student protest that had spiraled into violence.
Bangladeshi students held scattered street protests on Monday after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government ignored an ultimatum to release their leaders and apologise for those killed in deadly unrest.
DHAKA — Bangladesh said it had restored internet services as conditions return to normal after students called off protests against reforms to job quotas that killed nearly 150 people in July.
Meanwhile, the home minister says at least 147 people were killed during the violence over government job quotas.
A Bangladeshi student group has vowed to resume protests that sparked a lethal police crackdown and nationwide unrest unless several of their leaders are released from custody on Sunday.
NEW DELHI -- When an Indian family in Uttar Pradesh state sent their 18-year-old daughter to a cram school in a neighboring state so that she could get an edge in her college entrance exams, they had no idea that would be the last time they would see her.
Bangladesh said three student leaders had been taken into custody for their own safety after the government blamed their protests against civil service job quotas for the recent days of deadly nationwide unrest.