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Shaikh Azizur Rahman
SCMP contributor
Shaikh Azizur Rahman is a multi-platform India-based journalist. He writes on politics, human rights, social conflicts, refugees and other issues. His work has been published by The Guardian, The New York Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, Toronto Star and Voice of America, among others.
Victims urge the Supreme Court to stop Muslim-owned properties being arbitrarily razed under the guise of removing ‘illegal’ structures.
Several ministers and security personnel closely linked to ex-PM Sheikh Hasina are on the run as Bangladeshis seek their capture.
Analysts said the fake news was aimed at inflaming anti-Muslim sentiment in India and undermining Bangladesh’s interim government.
More than 700 became victims of enforced disappearances during Sheikh Hasina’s rule, a Bangladeshi human rights group alleges.
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Protests over job quotas have turned into a broader movement challenging Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government.
Among the calls by UN experts, human rights advocates and protesters is for Bangladesh’s home and law ministers to be prosecuted.
Charges mark a campaign by authorities to harass and vilify Nobel Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, a long-time rival of PM Sheikh Hasina, supporters note.
Muslim minority residents ‘pushed to the wall’ as security forces and the Arakan Army target villages with arson attacks and killings.
Rohingya groups have been “selling” the youths to Myanmar’s military in its fight against insurgents, including the Arakan Army.
For the ban to work, analysts suggest a sustained implementation strategy and better availability of economically feasible non-plastic substitutes.
The Bangladeshi opposition claims Hasina’s Awami League has won the past three general elections ‘all because of India’s support’.
Indian supporters of exiled Bangladeshi poet and novelist Taslima Nasrin have taken to social media demanding a long-term Indian residency for the author, after the Indian government refused to renew her residence permit.
Indian politicians whose criminal convictions have prevented them from running in the nation's general election are fielding their wives as candidates in this year's race instead.
A year ago, tensions were on a razor's edge in southeast Bangladesh, as Muslim mobs looted and vandalised 19 Buddhist temples and monasteries.
The large black-faced langur monkeys have been on guard for decades to keep out armies of smaller rhesus monkeys that plague Delhi, protecting events like the 2010 Commonwealth Games and visiting foreign dignitaries, and keeping order in the hallowed halls of parliament.
