Bangladesh’s Brutal Crackdown on Student Protests! What’s Happening?
5Pillars deputy editor, Dilly Hussain, explains what the recent student protests in Bangladesh are about, and why there has been a brutal crackdown by...
Bangladesh: 14 dead as police open fire on students
At least eight more people were killed in Bangladesh today as police opened fire on students protesting for quota reforms in the capital Dhaka and...
Bangladesh: Four killed, dozens injured as regime cracks down on student protests
At least four people were killed and hundreds injured in clashes between students protesting the quota system in public service jobs and police and...
Bangladesh: Police arrest 5,000 Jamaat-e-Islami supporters after Sayeedi death
Bangladesh’s Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami has alleged that its late leader Allama Delawar Hossain Sayeedi died due to lack of medical treatment in jail,...
Jailed Bangladesh Islamic leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi dies
Shaykh Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, the vice president of Bangladesh's opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party and a former member of parliament, has died whilst in jail.
Sayedee, 83,...
Cardiff father and son found dead in Bangladesh after apparent poisoning
A Cardiff father and his teenage son have been found dead in a flat in an apparent poisoning while on holiday in Bangladesh.
Rafiqul Islam, 51, a...
Bangladesh hospital named world’s best new building
A remote community hospital in the water-laden landscape of south-west Bangladesh has won the RIBA International Prize 2021, architecture’s highest global accolade for design...
Bangladesh likely to remove Islam as state religion
The Bangladeshi State Minister for Information, Murad Hassan, has said Islam is not the state religion and the country will soon go back to its original...
Several killed in Bangladesh violence following alleged Quran desecration
At least seven people have been killed and hundreds injured in violence that broke out in Bangladesh after the Quran was allegedly desecrated.
A photo...
Bangladeshi Islamic speaker Sheikh Abu Taha Adnan found alive
The popular Bangladeshi Islamic speaker Sheikh Abu Taha Adnan has been found several days after he went missing.
Police claimed that he was in hiding for...
