UAE pardons 57 Bangladeshis jailed for anti-Hasina protests
The Bangladeshi nationals were sentenced to long prison terms for protesting against the unrest in their home country.
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The Bangladeshi nationals were sentenced to long prison terms for protesting against the unrest in their home country.
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Hundreds of student protesters and political activists in Bangladesh, armed with bamboo sticks, iron rods and pipes, on Thursday, assaulted supporters of the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and prevented them from reaching the previous house of her father and assassinated independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the capital.
Young Bangladeshi professional Tanushree Shaha is outraged by recent mob violence against her family in the chaotic wake of premier Sheikh Hasina’s ouster from power, fearful that her fellow Hindus could face more reprisals.
“Inni, we are independent!” my 26-year-old cousin chanted from Shahbagh, a neighborhood in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, as millions joined a major protest march on Monday to the country’s Parliament House.
General Waker-Uz-Zaman then reached out to Hasina’s office, conveying to the prime minister that his soldiers would be unable to implement the lockdown she had called for, according to an Indian official briefed on the matter.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A court in the United Arab Emirates sentenced dozens of Bangladeshi nationals to prison, including three for life imprisonment, over protests against their home government in the Gulf country, state media reported Monday.
Renowned Bangladeshi economist and Nobel Prize laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus is at the centre of a new embezzlement trial because of a political “vendetta” against him by the government, observers say, echoing an open letter by world leaders last year condemning the alleged persecution.