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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Internet and mobile data services are still down despite apparent calm in Bangladesh following a verdict that scaled back a controversial quota system for government jobs after weeks of relentless protests that turned deadly.
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.
After meeting the parents of the affected students at his office on Monday, Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan said that all Malaysians in Bangladesh would be evacuated.
They were a force of collaborators used by Pakistan to try to crush the movement for an independent Bangladesh. The recent protests show that their blood-stained legacy remains alive — 53 years after the freedom war.
DHAKA — Bangladesh appeared calm on July 22 amid a curfew, but widespread disruption of telecoms prevailed a day after the Supreme Court scrapped some quotas for government jobs that sparked protests in July that killed scores.
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.
Bangladesh student protests against quotas for government jobs have escalated into the country’s worst unrest in years.
Al Jazeera spoke with a Palestinian artist who uses her skills to depict the suffering of her people over the past nine months.