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Statement from Sheikh Hasina and her family members regarding the verdict against them in a land-corruption case

⁨The following is the statement from Sheikh Hasina and her family members regarding the recent sentence issued against them in a land-corruption case —- We firmly deny all allegations of corruption, with each charge brought against us tainted by the political motivations of our opponents. The ACC is under the control of an unelected gove...

4,177 murder cases in 14 months across the country: Is the law only for the Awami League?

Fifteen months have passed under “the Shylock of Bangladesh”, Dr Yunus. In the fourteen months of his illegitimate rule, Dhaka alone has seen 456 recorded murders, according to the Dhaka Metropolitan Police itself. From last September to this October, DMP registered an average of 33 murder cases per month. Nationwide, 4,177 murder ca...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Comments on the International Crimes Tribunal and the Verdicts Against Her

The verdicts announced against me have been made by a rigged tribunal established and presided over by an unelected government with no democratic mandate. They are biased and politically motivated. In their distasteful call for the death penalty, they reveal the brazen and murderous intent of extremist figures within the interim government to re...

Awami League comments on EU delegation’s visit to Bangladesh

“This week’s visit from the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights to Bangladesh comes at a time of increasingly egregious assaults on Bangladesh’s hard-won democracy and the fundamental human rights of its own people. The EU delegation intends to use this visit to ‘learn more about the work of the inte...

British Bangladeshis protest human rights abuses under unelected Yunus administration

Over 2,000 members of the Bangladeshi diaspora in the UK held a demonstration in Trafalgar Square on 15 September to protest the repression, human rights abuses and undemocratic activities exhibited by the unelected interim government in Bangladesh. The protesters marched from Trafalgar Square to Downing Stree...