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Bangladesh is set to hold parliamentary elections next January. But only time will tell whether there will be real change at the top or whether the current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League will remain in power. In recent months there has been an increase in political protests calling for a neutral interim government ahead of the polls opening. But these protests have only resulted in...
A delegation of the United States (US) visited Bangladesh Awami League President Sheikh Hasina's political office at Dhanmondi on Friday. The three-member delegation comprised of Esha Gupta, Daniel Marke and Geoffrey Mcdonald - the representatives of US Institute For Peace (USIP) - visited the office at 4pm, a press release said. Awami League (AL) Presidium Member Lieutenant Colonel (Retd) Muhammad Faruk Khan welcomed the delegation with...
Mohammad Yunis has faced a slew of legal cases, and now is accused of siphoning off dividends owed to workers, labor law violations and corruption. Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is often called the banker to the poor. He founded the...
Please join the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission for a briefing on the human rights situation in Bangladesh as elections approach in January 2024. Bangladesh, a long-standing U.S. partner and host to nearly one million Rohingya refugees, is a parliamentary democracy that faces an array...
In 2018, Bangladeshi journalist Shahidul Alam was picked up by police, tortured, and imprisoned for 107 days, after he gave an interview to Al Jazeera television. Following a high-profile international campaign for his release, he is now out of jail. But he is not off the hook, since the Bangladeshi government...