Conservative BNP sweeps Bangladesh elections with over two-thirds majority in the parliament
The absence of Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League, banned from participating in the elections, presented a rightward shift in the country’s polity benefiting the BNP, which was out of power for almost two decades.
Bangladesh en la encrucijada: las elecciones y el futuro del octavo país más grande del mundo
La mayoría absoluta del BNP no es tanto un veredicto democrático como el resultado previsto de un proceso de ingeniería política de dos años.
Bangladesh at the crossroads: elections and the future of the world’s eighth largest country
BNP’s super-majority in Thursday’s elections is less a democratic verdict than the intended outcome of a two-year political engineering process.
Bangladesh’s liberation under siege
As Bangladesh marks the victory of its 1971 liberation, the secular, socialist foundations of the nation’s birth are under assault by the convergence of US geopolitical interests with religious fundamentalism.
Sheikh Hasina accuses Bangladeshi court of bias, says death sentence is politically motivated
Hasina had resigned and left the country following months-long violent protests against her government’s policies in which hundreds of people, mostly students, were killed in July-August 2024.
Political parties in Bangladesh oppose interim government’s changes to the country’s political system
The Muhammad Yunus-led interim government has failed to win the support of the majority of political parties in the country for its ambitious political “reforms”.
On the anniversary of Rashed Khan Menon’s imprisonment, Workers’ Party calls for the release of all political prisoners
Menon, 81, president of Workers’ Party of Bangladesh (WPB), has been charged with the murder of over 58 anti-quota protestors last year, despite not occupying any administrative position at the time.
Bangladesh’s interim government bans Awami League from contesting next general elections
The ban comes after months of systematic persecution of the former ruling party’s leaders and activists, violence against its cadres and allies, and attacks on party offices.
Election uncertainty continues in Bangladesh amid contradictory statements from interim government
The attacks on Awami League and its former allies undertaken by the interim government also raises questions of credibility about the democratic and political reform process initiated by the interim government.
Bangladesh witnesses wave of violent attacks against monuments of liberation war
In an online address from exile, former PM Sheikh Hasina accused the interim government led by Nobel Laureate Mohammad Yunus of destroying the country by sheltering extremists.
Student movement’s call to scrap Bangladesh’s 1972 constitution met with widespread rejection
The student movement has called the 1972 constitution, drafted after the 1971 war of liberation against Pakistan, as “Mujibist” and accused that it facilitated the prolonged rule of the Awami League.
Left in Bangladesh calls for immediate elections, end to political persecution
The Workers’ Party of Bangladesh also demanded a withdrawal of false cases against left leaders including its president Rashed Khan Menon and their immediate release from prison
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