-
2 months ago | 
thediplomat.com | Mubashar Hasan
The report will undermine the former prime minister’s international legitimacy further and likely complicate India’s relationship with the Awami League. A recent fact-finding report by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on human rights violations in Bangladesh during the July-August student-led uprising laid bare former leader Sheikh Hasina’s direct and commanding role in serious human rights violations.
-
2 months ago | 
tribunecontentagency.com | Mubashar Hasan
Tulip Siddiq, a British-Bangladeshi member of the British Parliament for the Labor Party and formerly a senior anti-corruption minister in Keir Starmer’s government, recently resigned from her ministerial position amid intense scrutiny and public pressure.
-
2 months ago | 
thediplomat.com | Mubashar Hasan
But are the allegations against the former British MP politically motivated? Is the Yunus-led interim government settling scores with Hasina? Tulip Siddiq, a British-Bangladeshi member of the British Parliament for the Labor Party and formerly a senior anti-corruption minister in Keir Starmer’s government, recently resigned from her ministerial position amid intense scrutiny and public pressure.
-
Jan 23, 2025 | 
e-ir.info | Mubashar Hasan
On August 5, 2024, Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh’s Prime Minister, fled the country to neighboring India. Against the backdrop of three weeks of intense mass protest, Hasina’s 15 years of authoritarianism had crumbled down. Before fleeing, under Hasina’s shoot to kill order, Bangladeshi security forces killed over 1000 mostly young Bangladeshi, blinded over 400 and injured hundreds.
-
Jan 23, 2025 | 
qoshe.com | Mubashar Hasan
-
Dec 30, 2024 | 
thediplomat.com | Mubashar Hasan
The student-led uprising of July-August not only resulted in the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from power in Bangladesh, but also it has disrupted the country’s two-party political system. Following her exit from Bangladesh, many Awami League (AL) members were jailed or went into hiding. The party is in a shambles and its future looks bleak. The AL dominated Bangladesh politics till August 1975, when President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated.
-
Dec 13, 2024 | 
thediplomat.com | Mubashar Hasan
A survivor of enforced disappearance under Sheikh Hasina returns home after over six years to see if the country’s political and social landscape has truly changed. Last month, I returned to Bangladesh for three weeks. It was my first time back in my home country after over six years in exile.
-
Nov 25, 2024 | 
tribunecontentagency.com | Mubashar Hasan
I have been in Bangladesh since early November. A survivor of enforced disappearance by the Sheikh Hasina regime, I left my country seven years ago. My recent return to my country has evoked mixed emotions in me. It is wonderful to return to post-Hasina Bangladesh and be able to meet my family and friends after so many years. However, many of the youth and students I met over the past three weeks seem traumatized. It brings back memories of my own traumas.
-
Nov 25, 2024 | 
thediplomat.com | Mubashar Hasan
Bangladesh has emerged from an era of great repression. Will resilience propel the country forward on the road to democracy? I have been in Bangladesh since early November. A survivor of enforced disappearance by the Sheikh Hasina regime, I left my country seven years ago. My recent return to my country has evoked mixed emotions in me. It is wonderful to return to post-Hasina Bangladesh and be able to meet my family and friends after so many years.
-
Oct 21, 2024 | 
thediplomat.com | Mubashar Hasan
Since the mass uprising in July-August, which forced the resignation of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her exit from Bangladesh, the country is being ruled by an interim government led by Dr. Muhammad Yunus. One of Yunus’ important decisions since being appointed the interim government’s chief adviser is the establishment of six reform commissions.
