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Activists and garment workers shout slogans during a protest demanding a minimum wage of 8,000 Bangladeshi Taka (USD 100) in Dhaka on November 8, 2013. (REUTERS/Andrew Biraj)

Violent Bangladesh garment pay clash shuts over 100 factories

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 11, 2013 | World

Dhaka, Reuters—Bangladeshi police fired water cannon and rubber bullets on Monday to break up a protest by garment workers demanding a higher minimum wage, forcing the closure of more than 100 factories. Bangladesh’s official wage board proposed a 77 percent...

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Handcuffed Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) soldiers look through a prison van as they arrive at the special court in Dhaka on November 5, 2013. (AFP PHOTO/ Munir uz ZAMAN)

Bangladesh sentences 152 to death for 2009 mutiny

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 5, 2013 | World

Dhaka, AP—A court in Bangladesh on Tuesday sentenced 152 people to death for their actions in a 2009 border guard mutiny in which 74 people, including 57 military commanders, were killed. Dhaka’s Metropolitan Sessions Court Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman also sentenced...

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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)

Ex-party chief jailed for 90 years in Bangladesh

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 15, 2013 | World

Dhaka, Associated Press—A 91-year-old former chief of an Islamic party in Bangladesh was sentenced to 90 years in jail on Monday for crimes against humanity during the country’s 1971 independence war, angering both supporters who said the trial was politically...

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Rescuers carry a survivor pulled out from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 10, 2013. (AP Photo)

Bangladesh workers find survivor in factory rubble

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 10, 2013 | World

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP)—A seamstress buried in the wreckage of a collapsed garment factory building for 17 days was rescued Friday, a miraculous moment set against a scene of unimaginable horror, where the death toll shot past 1,000. Reshma survived, in remarkably good...

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An investigator surveys the scene of a fire at a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, May 9, 2013. (AP Photo)

Bangladesh Fire Kills 8 as Collapse Toll Hits 950

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 9, 2013 | World

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP)—A fire fed by huge piles of acrylic products used to make sweaters killed eight people at a Bangladesh garment factory, barely two weeks after a collapse at another garment factory building where the death toll was approaching 1,000 on Thursday....