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Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina arrives to attend the 10th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Milan, Italy, 17 October 17, 2014. (EPA/MATTEO BAZZI)
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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).
Bangladesh leaders vie for power after marred elections
Dhaka, AP—For two decades, the “Battling Begums” have been at the forefront of this South Asian nation’s politics, vying for power and trading insults in a poisonous rivalry. Now the longstanding enmity between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and...Caption:
A Bangladeshi voter gets help from a policeman and an usher in finding her polling booth at a voting station in Dhaka on January 5, 2014. Bangladesh voted on January 5 in a violence-plagued election that will end in certain victory for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after the opposition boycotted the “farcical” contest (AFP PHOTO / Roberto SCHMIDT)
At least 11 killed in Bangladesh election violence
Dhaka, Associated Press—Police in Bangladesh fired at protesters and opposition activists torched more than 100 polling stations Sunday during a national election boycotted by the opposition and described as flawed by the international community. At least 11 people...Caption:
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
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...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)