POD | Zuma Press 16 May 2013

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May 16, 2013 – Chittagong, Bangladesh – Bangladeshi police urge people to move to safer areas ahead of the arrival of tropical cyclone Mahasen in Chittagong, Bangladesh. People living in coastal areas in Bangladesh and Myanmar are being evacuated as cyclone Mahasen is expected to make landfall late Thursday or early Friday, according to news reports. (Credit Image: © Monirul Alam/ZUMAPRESS.com)

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POD | Zuma Press 06 April 2013

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April 6, 2013 – Dhaka, Bangladesh – Islamic activists march to Dhaka’s business hub Motijheel turning it into a human sea as thousands of people poured into the area to join the mass rally of radical Islamist organization Hefajat-e Islam to press home its 13-point demands including capital punishment of atheist bloggers for ‘defaming’ Islam and Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). (Credit Image: © Monirul Alam/ZUMAPRESS.com)

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POD | Zuma Press 28 March 2013

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March 28, 2013 – Dhaka, Bangladesh – Police point a gun at a home owner during a search for protesters who took part in a nationwide strike called by the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). The BNP and its allies enforced a 36 hour general strike across the country mainly to demand the release of more than 150 of their leaders and activists detained earlier this month. (Credit Image: © Monirul Alam/ZUMAPRESS.com)

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POD | Zuma Press 11 March 2013

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March 11, 2013 – Dhaka, Bangladesh – BNP acting secretary MIRZA FAKHRUL ISLAM ALAMGIR (C) is detained after members and supporters of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) clashed with police Monday. Hundreds of stone-throwing anti-government protesters were denouncing the trials of several opposition politicians accused of crimes stemming from the country’s 1971 independence war. © Monirul Alam

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Bangladesh Opposition Strike (news)

30 April 2012 Dhaka, Bangladesh- Bangladeshi  police and rapid action battalion RAB jointly arrest unidentified  suspect person at Mogbazar area during a nationwide general strike in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Schools and businesses have remained closed in the Bangladesh’s capital as an 18-party opposition alliance has enforced a daylong nationwide general strike to demand the government find an opposition leader who went missing nearly two weeks ago. © Monirul Alam

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Students Protest Turn Violence in Bangladesh

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Police have charged with batons and arrested to disperse hundreds of students of Jagannath University blocking streets near the Topkhan road on September 25, 2011. Hundreds of university students staged a demonstration on Sunday demanding the scrapping of a clause in the Jagannath University Act, 2005, which deems the institution ineligible of receiving government funding,  media reported. Dhaka, September 2011. © Monirul Alam