Women’s sport is clearly threatened in Bangladesh. A women’s football match was indeed canceled this Wednesday in the north of the country on Wednesday after a demonstration of Islamists, the day after a similar incident, also in the North. Since the fall of the former Autocratic Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, last August, this Muslim majority … Read more
For generations, the small Hindu temple in a village near Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, was a peaceful place of prayer in the predominantly Muslim country, until attackers set it on fire in early December. In the chaos that followed the ouster of autocratic Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on August 5, a series of reprisals … Read more
Until this November morning, when Musqan, a 4-year-old girl, was attacked and mutilated in the middle of the rice fields, few residents of the remote district of Netrokona (east) had seen a jackal. But with deforestation, these attacks are increasing in Bangladesh. And the trend in the densely populated South Asian country could worsen with … Read more
After the ” revolution “ of summer, the ” spring “ of the protest. The fall of the autocratic regime of Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh brought a wind of freedom to the streets of Dhaka, the daily scene of demonstrations of all kinds. At the beginning of November, the center of the Bangladeshi capital is … Read more
From immunity to impunity? In Bangladesh, the provisional authorities’ promise not to prosecute the rioters who precipitated the fall of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina worries those who were the targets of their violence. Abdul spends most of his time in a Dhaka hospital, at the bedside of his 16-year-old son, Shahriar, who has been … Read more
The immigration plans of Giorgia Meloni’s government are not going as planned. An Italian court has invalidated the detention in Albanian centers of the first twelve asylum seekers that Rome transferred there this week, we learned on Friday. The court cited a recent ruling by the European Court of Justice on countries of origin considered … Read more