Bangladeshi army personnel stand guard near the parliament house in Dhaka. [Munir Uz Zaman/AFP] Demonstrators insist they won’t be placated by change in the government job quota system; want curfew lifted, detainees released. Protesters in ...
Nahid Islam Nahid Islam, one of the coordinators of the quota reform movement in Bangladesh, alleged that he was blindfolded and subjected to physical and mental torture. He alleged that he was picked up by ...
“Protesters don’t back down even when shots are fired,” DW correspondents report from Bangladesh. The capital has seen days of massive student protests with over a hundred deaths, Weeks of escalating student protests over a ...
Bangladesh’s top court has scrapped most of the quotas on government jobs that had sparked violent clashes across the country that have killed more than 100 people. A third of public sector jobs had been ...