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              Sheikh Hasina

              • Friday, 10 January, 2025
                Labour party UK
                Starmer met ousted Awami League figure last month

                UK Labour party has long ties with ‘Kennedys of Bangladesh’ despite former regime’s alleged corruption and violence

                UK prime minister Keir Starmer with Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury, the ousted mayor of the Bangladeshi city of Sylhet, in Glasgow in December
              • Friday, 10 January, 2025
                Tulip Siddiq
                Aunt of UK’s anti-corruption minister denied Malta passport on corruption fears

                Documentation for application by ally of ousted Bangladesh PM contains details of arrangement of family affairs

                Maltese passports
              • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
                Tulip Siddiq
                Dhaka police ‘raided lawyer’s home’ after journalists asked UK MP about his plight

                Mir Ahmad bin Quasem says security personnel intimidated wife before TV confrontation with Labour MP was broadcast

                Ahmad Bin Quasem
              • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
                Tulip Siddiq
                Bangladesh requests UK minister’s bank account details in corruption probe

                UK City minister Tulip Siddiq under scrutiny for links to ousted regime of her aunt Sheikh Hasina

                Tulip Siddiq
              • Friday, 3 January, 2025
                Tulip Siddiq
                Tulip Siddiq was given London flat by developer with links to ousted Bangladeshi government

                UK City minister still owns King’s Cross property she was handed in 2004

                Tulip Siddiq
              • Monday, 23 December, 2024
                Bangladesh asks India to return ousted leader Sheikh Hasina

                Request likely to heighten tensions between Dhaka and New Delhi already raised by toppling of former prime minister

                Sheikh Hasina
              • Saturday, 21 December, 2024
                Tulip Siddiq
                UK minister’s links to ousted Bangladesh leader under scrutiny after corruption claims

                Tulip Siddiq has cited the support of her aunt, Sheikh Hasina, and her Awami League party

                Montage shows Bangladesh leader Sheikh Hasina with UK City minister Tulip Siddiq against a backdrop showing the Awami League’s logo
              • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
                Bangladesh
                Bangladesh tycoon says Singapore citizenship is a shield against central bank ‘intimidation’

                Mohammed Saiful Alam considers international arbitration over accusations he siphoned money out of banking sector

                Vehicles stuck in a traffic jam along a main road in Dhaka, Bangladesh
              • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
                InterviewBangladesh
                Bangladesh’s leader says ‘no place’ for Sheikh Hasina’s ‘fascist’ party

                Muhammad Yunus says will not seek exiled leader’s extradition from India before domestic tribunal’s verdict

                Yunus spreads his hands while sitting in a plush gilt armchair
              • Monday, 28 October, 2024
                Bangladesh
                Bangladesh central banker accuses tycoons of ‘robbing banks’ of $17bn with spy agency help

                Conglomerate rejects claim it co-operated to siphon money out of the country during rule of ousted Sheikh Hasina

                Sheikh Hasina
              • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
                OutlookJohn Reed
                Where is Sheikh Hasina?

                A cloak of discretion is likely to surround the whereabouts of the deposed strongwoman — and by New Delhi’s design

                Sheikh Hasina
              • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
                Britain asked to investigate assets linked to ousted Bangladeshi regime

                Dhaka central bank probes whether allies of autocrat Sheikh Hasina diverted upwards of £13bn overseas

                Emerson Bainbridge House in London
              • Sunday, 18 August, 2024
                News in-depthBangladesh
                India accuses Bangladesh’s interim leaders of failing to protect Hindus

                Rising tensions complicate attempts to mend a vital partnership after Sheikh Hasina was toppled

                Protests in Dhaka, Bangladesh
              • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
                News in-depthBangladesh
                Global fashion brands cut Bangladesh orders after turmoil

                Producers in world’s second-largest garment exporter say customers are concerned about violence and disruption

                A worker at Apex Footwear in Dhaka
              • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
                News in-depthBangladesh
                ‘Dhaka has turned into Gotham’: On patrol with Bangladesh’s vigilantes

                Neighbourhood groups try to impose order after collapse of Sheikh Hasina’s regime leaves security vacuum

                Syed Bipro stands with a cricket bat resting on his shoulder
              • Monday, 12 August, 2024
                Muhammad Yunus
                Bangladesh’s Muhammad Yunus calls for free speech and independent judiciary

                Interim government leader and Nobel laureate says Sheikh Hasina left behind ‘complete mess’

                Yunus sits surrounded by the family and officials
              • Monday, 12 August, 2024
                Alec Russell
                How autocracies endure — and end

                Strongmen rulers are not immune to a wave of incumbency fatigue spreading across the world

                Illustration of a military helicopter with the blades and rear rota drawn as a red X from a ballot paper
              • Friday, 9 August, 2024
                News in-depthBangladesh
                Students take charge of Bangladesh megacity after ousting Sheikh Hasina

                Protesters who toppled the long-ruling prime minister now control the streets of Dhaka, but challenges loom

                Young people wave and cheer in front of a fire at the PM’s official residence
              • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
                Bangladesh
                Yunus warns against Bangladesh anarchy

                Nobel Peace Prize winner sworn in as head of interim government leader after appeal for end to violence

                Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus arriving at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport
              • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
                News in-depthBangladesh
                India’s Bangladesh bet backfires after Sheikh Hasina ousted

                Toppling of long-governing prime minister is a major setback for New Delhi

                Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in June 2024
              • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
                Bangladesh
                Bangladesh’s Muhammad Yunus calls for new elections after political turmoil

                Nobel laureate agrees to lead interim government after protests toppled autocrat Sheikh Hasina

                Protesters celebrate Sheikh Hasina’s resignation in Dhaka on Monday
              • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
                Bangladesh
                Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to head interim government in Bangladesh

                Appointment announced after dissolution of parliament opens way for creation of interim cabinet

                Bangladesh Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus in Dhaka in January
              • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
                The FT ViewThe editorial board
                Bangladesh’s power vacuum

                A swift transition to a democratically elected government is vital

                Protesters try to demolish a large statue of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of Bangladesh leader Sheikh Hasina, after she resigned as Prime Minister, in Dhaka, Bangladesh
              • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
                News in-depth
                How the world’s longest-serving female leader was toppled

                Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule over Bangladesh met a sudden end. Now protesters worry about what’s next

                Protesters overrun Sheikh Hasina’s grand residence in central Dhaka
              • Monday, 5 August, 2024
                Bangladesh
                Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina resigns and flees country

                Army chief announces long-ruling leader’s departure after demonstrators storm her official residence

                Anti-government protestors display Bangladesh’s national flag as they storm Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s palace in Dhaka
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