Bangladesh's anti-corruption commission has alleged Siddiq used her relationship with her aunt, the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, to influence the allocation of a plot of state-owned land in Dhaka's Gulshan district to a private company. Siddiq has rejected the claim as baseless and politically motivated.
On a Thursday afternoon, 19-year-old Mahmudul Hasan prepared seating on the floor of his bamboo-and-tarpaulin home in Balukhali Rohingya Refugee camp. Minutes later, 35 young children trooped in. Hasan is still in his teens, but he is their teacher. They greeted him in Rakhine language: Sayar, Nay Kaung Lar? [Sir, how are you?] The children are among 80 who study at Hasan's community-run private school, where he teaches them Burmese, English and maths.
The unprecedented convergence of internal and external pressures makes these protests distinct. Protests are nothing new in Iran. Since the 1979 Islamic revolution, the sanctions-hit country has been rocked by repeated waves of demonstrations. However, experts say the current deadly upheaval is unprecedented, due to a potent mix of rising domestic pressures and aggressive threats from the United States leaving Iran's leaders with fewer options on what to do next.
Every evening around 8pm, Faisal Khan locks himself inside his small hostel room at East West Medical College in Nishat Nagar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. If there is a knock on the door, he pauses before opening it, listening carefully first for familiar voices. Outside the campus, he avoids crowded tea stalls and markets. He does not speak Bangla fluently, and he knows that his accent could give him away as an Indian an identity he desperately wants to mask these days,
A new report by the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances on Sunday said a total of 1,913 complaints were filed with it over disappearances, of which 1,569 were considered to have disappeared by definition after verification selection. list of 3 itemsend of list Among these, 287 allegations have fallen in the Missing and Dead' category, the report, which was posted on Facebook by Bangladesh's Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus, read.
