Students clash with police during a protest over a controversial quota system for government job applicants, in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Friday, July 19, 2024 [Rajib Dhar/AP Photo] For three days, Ahsan Habib, a private ...
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 ...
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 ...