DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh’s transitional government has decided to cancel all diplomatic passports, including one with which former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took refuge in neighboring India following an August 5 student-led revolution. The Ministry of Home Affairs has confirmed that diplomatic or red passports that are allocated ...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule of the country ended on Monday as she fled weeks of deadly protests and the military announced it would form an interim government. Hasina had sought since early July to quell nationwide protests against her government, but she fled after a brutal day o...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh announced that a curfew will continue Friday and Saturday with a nine-hour pause amid an intensified crackdown against those involved in violence during student protests. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan announced at a news conference early Friday after meeting with law enforcement that the curfew, which came ...
Dhaka, Bangladesh — AFP Torn portraits of Bangladesh’s independence hero litter a ransacked state television station — a pointed expression of public fury against his daughter, who just witnessed the worst unrest of her premiership. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addressed the nation on Bangladesh Television (BTV) last week to ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Disciplinary hearing has begun for 21 students at Melbourne University for participating in a Free Palestine sit-in protest. The hearings began on Wednesday, with dozens of people, including students and academics, gathering to show their support for the accused students. They had earlier received “general misconduc...
PRAGUE (AA) – For over two weeks, hundreds of students have been encamped at the University of Copenhagen, one of hundreds of similar protests sweeping the entire globe. Their demands are centered on divestment from companies linked to Israel, while also pressing the university administration to declare Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza genocid...
ANKARA/LONDON (AA) – Police stormed the Free Palestine Movement camp at the University of Geneva and violently dispersed the protesting students. The protests had started on the campus last week, according to the daily Le Temps. Cleaning work started in the building after police broke up the protest camp. The students started protesting ...
GENEVA (AA) – Students from the global Free Palestine Movement at the University of Geneva, who have been staging demonstrations for the liberation of Palestine since May 7, have demanded their university call for a cease-fire and condemn the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Swiss student Elisabetta, who asked not to give her surname, told the ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A Palestinian-American professor who was injured while being held to the ground by police officers during his arrest at a student-led Free Palestine Movement campus protest says action against him was racially motivated. “There were three faculty that were detained, and violently a little bit, and three of us were...
ANKARA (AA) – Student-led Free Palestine Movement protests against Israel’s genocidal offensive on Gaza which started last month at New York’s Columbia University have since spread to universities across the world. In France, demonstrations in support of Palestine continue at many universities, often met with harsh police intervention. In Pari...