How a mass movement thwarted plot to keep Sheikh Hasina out of politics & freed her from prison

June 11, 2008, marked a new dawn in Bangladesh’s strive for democracy. An unelected and unconstitutional caretaker government backed by the military buckled under a spontaneous mass movement that sparked throughout the country in protest at the incarceration of Sheikh Hasina based on trumped-up charges. Eleven months back, on July 16 of t...