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A cycle rickshaw driver waits for customers near a poster of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during a 48-hour general strike called by the opposition to protest Sunday’s election, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014 (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh).
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Bangladeshi police stand guard in front of the house of main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Khaleda Zia in Dhaka on December 26, 2013. Bangladesh’s opposition accused authorities of placing their leader under virtual house arrest on December 26 as tens of thousands of troops were deployed across the country ahead of elections next month. (AFP Photo/Munir uz Zaman)
Bangladesh deploys army ahead of elections
Bangladesh, AP—Authorities in Bangladesh began deploying military soldiers on Thursday to help civil administrators hold national elections on January 5 which the opposition is boycotting. The main opposition party and the allies joining its boycott insist Prime...Caption:
Police surround BNP standing committee members MK Anwar, Rafiqul Islam Mia and Moudud Ahmed after they left a court following a hearing in Dhaka on November 9, 2013. (Reuters)
Bangladesh authorities arrest opposition leaders
Dhaka, Associated Press—Bangladeshi authorities have arrested three senior leaders of the main opposition party amid increasing tensions ahead of next year’s elections, an official said Saturday. Police detectives arrested Moudud Ahmed, M.K. Anwar and Rafiqul...Caption:
In this photograph taken on May 13, 2012, Ghulam Azam (C), former head of the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party, is assisted by security personnel as he emerges from the Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal in Dhaka. A special Bangladesh court on July 13, 2013, found top Islamist, Azam, guilty of masterminding atrocities during the 1971 war of independence against Pakistan (AFP PHOTO/STR/ FILES)