Search results for ‘Bangladesh’
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Bangladesh Nobel prize winner’s daughter says her father is innocent and being persecuted
We spoke to Muhammad Yunus’s daughter Monica – before his appeal date was set. She claims his treatment amounts to harassment.
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Muhammad Yunus: Nobel Peace Prize winner on bail in Bangladesh
The Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus has won fans around the world for creating a system of lending money to poor people to start small businesses.
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Deadly Cyclone Mocha slams Myanmar and Bangladesh
Half a million people have been evacuated as a powerful cyclone slammed into Myanmar and Bangladesh, with torrential rain and winds of up to 120 miles an hour. Cyclone Mocha, which formed in the Bay of Bengal, has caused landslides and brought down trees, with several people killed. As the storm made landfall in Rakhine…
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Devastating floods kill at least 59 and leave millions stranded in Bangladesh and India
Deadly monsoon storms have killed at least 59 people in Bangladesh and north-eastern India.
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Calls for Bangladesh to halt relocation of Rohingya refugees to remote island
Human rights groups have called on Bangladesh to halt what they claim is the forced relocation of Rohingya refugees to a remote, cyclone prone island
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Coronavirus ‘could kill 2 million in Bangladesh’, warns leaked UN memo
In Bangladesh up to two million people could be in danger of dying from Covid-19.
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Tulip Siddiq: UK wing of Bangladesh’s ruling party appear to be campaigning for Labour candidate
Should a British parliamentary candidate receive campaign support from an organisation linked to an oppressive foreign government?
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Dozens killed in fire that ravaged Bangladesh shopping district
At least 67 people have been killed in a fire which raged through an historic shopping district in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka.
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Photographer Shahidul Alam on life in Bangladeshi prison
An acclaimed photographer who spent more than a hundred days in prison in Bangladesh claims he was tortured by security forces.
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Bangladeshi PM hails landslide victory as opponents cry foul
The Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, has hailed her landslide victory in yesterday’s elections – dismissing opposition claims that the vote was ‘farcical’ and marred by intimidation and ballot rigging. Hasina’s party won all but a handful of the country’s 300 parliamentary seats to secure a third consecutive term in power. Ed Howker reports.
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Tasneem Khalil on Bangladesh election controversy
Jackie Long is joined in the studio by Tasneem Khalil, an independent Swedish-Bangladeshi journalist who lives in Malmö.
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Violence, abuse and disappearances in Bangladesh
Protesters beaten up on the streets, journalists attacked and arrested, scores of people disappeared by the authorities. Concern is growing around the world about the abuse of human rights in Bangladesh.
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Noam Chomsky and Arundhati Roy join calls for release of acclaimed photographer in Bangladesh
There’s been outrage around the world over the arrest of the acclaimed photographer Shahidul Alam in Bangladesh – as Noam Chomsky and Arundhati Roy joined the calls for his release, demanding his right to free speech. Alam, who’s 63, was detained on Sunday, after giving a television interview about student protests.
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Pen International campaigner on arrest of acclaimed Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam
There’s been outrage around the world over the arrest of the acclaimed photographer Shahidul Alam in Bangladesh – as Noam Chomsky and Arundhati Roy joined the calls for his release, demanding his right to free speech. Alam, who’s 63, was detained on Sunday, after giving a television interview about student protests. The writer Salil Tripathi,…
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Bangladesh PM refuses to answer questions on human rights record
The Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina has refused to answer questions about her country’s human rights record. She is in the UK as part of the Commonwealth Summit. This programme has been investigating the many cases of the so-called “missing” in Bangladesh who are political opponents of her government.
