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October 12, 2025

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Sheikh Hasina’s Awami Champion

Sheikh Hassina, then Prime Minister of Bangladesh, gestures during a meeting with foreign observers and journalists at the Prime Minister’s residence in Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 8, 2024 – Reuters Dhaka: As soon as Bangladesh’s biggest political party, the Awami Championship has been banned since his leader, Sheikh Hasina, was overthrown in a mass uprising last year. Now, its supporters – encouraged by Hasina’s social media calls to “resist” – are organizing a flash mob protests that defy the ban as the country is preparing for elections that forbid the party. In the capital, Dhaka, the 45 -year -old cleaner Mohammad

December 25, 2024

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Ousted PM Hasina’s son denies bribery in $12.65bn nuclear deal dollars

Sajeeb Wazed, son of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gestures during an interview with Reuters at the prime minister’s residence in Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 29, 2018. — Reuters NEW DELHI: Ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son and adviser Sajeeb Wazed on Tuesday described allegations of corruption implicating the family in the 2015 award of a $12.65 billion nuclear power contract as “totally false” and a “smear campaign ». Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission announced on Monday that it has launched an investigation into allegations of corruption, embezzlement and money laundering at the Rooppur nuclear power plant project, which is backed by

September 26, 2024

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Rohingya in Bangladesh are hoping for renewed attention after Hasina’s ouster

A Rohingya refugee holds his child while carrying relief materials in a camp in Ukiah on September 12, 2024. — AFP Rohingya refugees have endured years of misery and violence in Bangladesh, but the ouster last month of Sheikh Hasina, the country’s authoritarian former prime minister, has given them new hope for the future. About a million members of the stateless and persecuted Muslim minority live in a vast patchwork of Bangladeshi relief camps after fleeing violence in their homeland next to Myanmar. In 2017, Hasina was praised by the international community for opening the border to an estimated 750,000

September 9, 2024

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Bangladesh seeks Sheikh Hasina’s extradition from India

Listen to the article DHAKA: Bangladesh’s war crimes tribunal is set to seek the extradition of ousted leader Sheikh Hasina from neighboring India, its attorney general said, accusing her of committing “massacres”. Weeks of student protests in Bangladesh escalated into mass demonstrations last month, with Hasina resigning as prime minister and fleeing by helicopter to old ally India on August 5, ending her 15-year rule. “As the main perpetrator has left the country, we will start the legal process to bring her back,” Mohammad Tajul Islam, chief prosecutor of Bangladesh’s International Criminal Court (ICT), told reporters on Sunday. The ICT

September 5, 2024

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Thousands of students protest in Bangladesh to mark one month since former prime minister Hasina’s fall

DHAKA: Thousands of students gathered in Bangladesh on Thursday to mark the one-month anniversary of the fall of longtime former prime minister Sheikh Hasina after deadly protests. Students, teachers and families of those killed in the riots took part in the ‘March for Martyrs’ holding the national flag and chanting slogans such as ‘Blood of martyrs is our strength’. The anti-government protests began in July as a student-led movement against public sector job quotas and escalated into a national uprising against Hasina. More than 1,000 people have died in the unrest, which forced Hasina to resign and flee to India

August 23, 2024

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Bangladesh revokes Sheikh Hasina’s diplomatic passport

DHAKA: Bangladesh’s caretaker government revoked the diplomatic passport of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday after she fled the student uprising in India by helicopter earlier this month. The move to cancel Hasina’s papers leaves the former autocratic leader in a possible limbo and comes on the same day a United Nations team arrived in Dhaka to assess whether to investigate alleged human rights abuses. More than 450 people were killed – many by police fire – in the weeks leading up to Hasina’s ouster, as mobs stormed her official residence in Dhaka and ended her 15-year rule. The

August 22, 2024

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Bangladesh revokes former PM Hasina’s diplomatic passport

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina speaks at Japan’s national press club in Tokyo on May 28, 2014. — AFP DHAKA: Bangladesh’s caretaker government revoked the diplomatic passport of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday after she fled the student uprising in India by helicopter earlier this month. The move to cancel Hasina’s papers leaves the former autocratic leader in a possible limbo and comes on the same day a United Nations team arrived in Dhaka to assess whether to investigate alleged human rights abuses. More than 450 people were killed – many by police fire – in the

August 16, 2024

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As the cases grow, Bangladesh will decide to seek Hasina’s extradition, the adviser says

Bangladesh’s de-facto FM notes that Hasina faces “so many cases”. Official asks India, countries to accept more Rohingya refugees. Dhaka seeks good ties with all, including India, China and the US. DHAKA: As cases mount against it, including murder charges, Bangladesh will decide whether to ask India to extradite former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who resigned and fled to New Delhi last week, the de facto said on Thursday the country’s foreign minister Mohammad Tuhid Hossein. . Hossein said in an interview that he did not want to speculate, but noted that Hasina was dealing with “so many cases.” If

August 15, 2024

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Bangladesh’s missing lawyer tells of former PM Sheikh Hasina’s secret prison

Ahmad Bin Quasem gives an interview after being released from confinement for eight years by Sheikh Hasina’s government. — AFP/File DHAKA: Blindfolded, handcuffed and out of his secret prison for the first time in eight years, Bangladeshi lawyer Ahmad Bin Quasem held his breath and heard the sound of a gun being fired. Instead, he was thrown from a car and into a muddy ditch on the outskirts of Dhaka — alive, free and unaware of the national upheaval that had led to his abrupt release. “It’s the first time I’ve had fresh air in eight years,” Quasem, 40, said

August 13, 2024

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A Bangladeshi court has ordered an inquiry into former prime minister Hasina’s role in the grocer’s death

In this handout photo taken and released on July 25, 2024 by the Office of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina (C) cries while visiting a metro station in Mirpur that was vandalized by students during anti-quota protests. — AFP DHAKA: A Bangladesh court ordered an investigation Tuesday into former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s role in the death of a grocery store owner in the capital Dhaka during last month’s deadly student protests, the complainant’s lawyer said. The case filed by Amir Hamza against Hasina and six others was accepted by the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s

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