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How Bangladesh student protests sparked broader crisis for Hasina government
It has been five days since the Bangladeshi government imposed a military-style crackdown on students in Dhaka. More than 180 students have been killed, scores of others injured and more than 25,000 have been arrested. Meanwhile, the internet is still shut down and an eery calm has engulfed the capital Dhaka after a court scaled …
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Persecution of Bangladeshi Nobel laureate is political ‘vendetta’ by Hasina government: analysts
Around 200 cases have been filed against Yunus since Sheikh Hasina first became Bangladesh’s prime minister in 2009, mostly for allegedly violating labour laws and embezzling funds from some of the more than 50 social business firms that he had set up in the country. Supporters of Yunus allege that the cases mark a campaign …