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As general elections approach this week in Bangladesh, opposition leader Abdul Moyeen Khan says he had to hide out in the homes of a string of acquaintances until nominations closed, trying to escape a government crackdown. The former minister and his Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) are not running in the Jan. 7 vote, in which Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is chasing a fourth straight term, despite a bleak economy that needed an IMF bailout last year. "We're not even in the election, but they are still not sparing us," the grey-haired Khan, 77, said in Dhaka, the capital, on...

STORY: As Bangladeshis prepare to go to the polls on Sunday, the country's main opposition party says millions of its members are facing a government crackdown - even though none of them are running... -January 02, 2024 at 03:29 am EST - MarketScreener

The delivery of the verdict of a 2007 graft case filed against BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas was today rescheduled to January 24

More than 10,000 opposition activists have been jailed after protests against ‘one-sided elections’, says Human Rights Watch.

Six-year-old Siyam stood in front of the Jatiya Press Club with his mother yesterday, showing everyone a photo of his father and pleading, “Release my father.”