#  @TheDavidBergman David Bergman David Bergman posts on X about bangladesh, prime minister, election, murder the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::27567711/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] +6,659% - [--] Month [-------] +252% - [--] Months [-------] +98% - [--] Year [---------] -91% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::27567711/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] +583% - [--] Month [--] +364% - [--] Months [---] +59% - [--] Year [---] -60% ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::27567711/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.27% - [--] Month [------] +0.26% - [--] Months [------] -0.52% - [--] Year [------] +0.74% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::27567711/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) 62.77% [social networks](/list/social-networks) 2.19% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 2.19% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 2.19% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) 0.73% **Social topic influence** [bangladesh](/topic/bangladesh) #237, [prime minister](/topic/prime-minister) #110, [election](/topic/election) #982, [murder](/topic/murder) 5.11%, [prime](/topic/prime) #456, [has been](/topic/has-been) 4.38%, [what is](/topic/what-is) #2712, [india](/topic/india) 2.92%, [facebook](/topic/facebook) #3182, [social](/topic/social) #984 **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@prothomalo](/creator/undefined) [@netranews](/creator/undefined) [@kchoudhu](/creator/undefined) [@sinanalharith](/creator/undefined) [@babarhoneyx](/creator/undefined) [@jonfdanilowicz](/creator/undefined) [@dailystarnews](/creator/undefined) [@guardian](/creator/undefined) [@in_tasin](/creator/undefined) [@basherabol](/creator/undefined) [@maruf52824981](/creator/undefined) [@counterpointbd](/creator/undefined) [@ipsjournal](/creator/undefined) [@prothomalos](/creator/undefined) [@zulkarnainsaer](/creator/undefined) [@nytimes](/creator/undefined) [@capresssec](/creator/undefined) [@hrw](/creator/undefined) [@paliwalavi](/creator/undefined) [@thetimes](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "A key indicator of the success or otherwise of the #Bangladesh election will be voter turnout. With the Awami League excluded from the ballot even if that exclusion is considered justified questions about the elections legitimacy are likely to arise. The absence of one of the countrys major political forces risks leaving a substantial segment of the electorate effectively unrepresented. In this context turnout will serve as a crucial measure of legitimacy. A turnout in the range of [----] percent would suggest either that support for the Awami League has significantly diminished since July 2024" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2021629720215879802) 2026-02-11T16:57Z 84K followers, 10.5K engagements "Turnout by 2pm was just under 50% according to #bangladesh Election Commission. Seems unlikely to have reached 60% by end of voting. If so this is not a great turnout possibly denting legitimacy somewhat. In terms of results it also suggests a segment of the Awami League vote did not come out to vote probably benefiting the Jamaat-e-islami in the electoral race against the BNP https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021922279748235708 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021922279748235708" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2021922279748235708) 2026-02-12T12:20Z 84K followers, 10.9K engagements "Ekkator TV is now saying : BNP - [---] seats Jamaat - [--] seats Many of these are unofficial results and it is unclear what is their source. Jamaat however state very different (unofficial) results: BNP - [--] seats Jamaat - [--] seats Ekkator TV now saying: BNP [--] seats Jamaat [--] seats Ekkator TV now saying: BNP [--] seats Jamaat [--] seats" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2022009948885180588) 2026-02-12T18:08Z 84K followers, 13K engagements "#Bangladesh Election From @NetraNews "Facebook pages connected to Jamaat-e-Islami shared and promoted through paid advertising dozens of images that appear to show real individuals identified by name and profession but who are unlikely to exist. Social media accounts linked to the party have published more than two dozen photographs of purported voters as part of campaign materials. However experts consulted by Netra News said the people depicted in the images were likely not real and were probably created using artificial intelligence. The practice may breach Election Commission rules" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2021633906554945574) 2026-02-11T17:14Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "The Jamaat-e-Islami candidate in Comilla [--] Shafiqul Helal claims that 30-40 polling stations in his constituency out of about [---] have been taken over by BNP. Can some journalists in Comilla [--] follow this up to determine whether this is accurate or not" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2021839933917282314) 2026-02-12T06:52Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "Ekkator TV BNP [--] seats Jamaat [--] seats BBC is giving [--] seats to BNP and [--] to Jamaat Ekkator TV is giving [--] to BNP and [--] to Jamaat Not quite sure what accounts for the difference BBC is giving [--] seats to BNP and [--] to Jamaat Ekkator TV is giving [--] to BNP and [--] to Jamaat Not quite sure what accounts for the difference" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2021977468807291381) 2026-02-12T15:59Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "Ekkator TV now saying: BNP [--] seats Jamaat [--] seats From @NetraNews https://t.co/wnZBxUkdhK From @NetraNews https://t.co/wnZBxUkdhK" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2021990743355879534) 2026-02-12T16:52Z 84K followers, 16.7K engagements "A solid turnout @NetraNews has this. It was a good turnout but 40% stayed at home. What does this tell us or mean for the legitimacy of the referendum result https://t.co/2RjNzdm1eA @NetraNews has this. It was a good turnout but 40% stayed at home. What does this tell us or mean for the legitimacy of the referendum result https://t.co/2RjNzdm1eA" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2022133016357953760) 2026-02-13T02:17Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "What next for Dr Yunus Whilst it seems polls have suggested that Muhammad Yunus and the interim government remained popular throughout its [--] months in power at least amongst civil society in Dhaka and its social elite there was rarely a good word said about him. Before July/August [----] the country's elite civil society respected Yunus but did not necessarily warm to him. Now he has -- rightly or wrongly -- also lost a lot of that respect. In part that is the nature of governing as it forces leaders to make a lot of difficult decisions. Reform accountability and stability are objectives that" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2022189177815670978) 2026-02-13T06:00Z 84K followers, 53.4K engagements "BNP won the Bangladesh election - and they appear to have got a two thirds majority. But it will be very interesting to see what was the respective share of the vote between BNP v Jamaat" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2022199022887575561) 2026-02-13T06:39Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "Tarique Rahman will be the first MALE prime minister in Bangladesh in [--] years. Not many countries can say that" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2022250416596210161) 2026-02-13T10:04Z 84K followers, 251.3K engagements "Dont know what to make of this but Jamaat claims that it is leading in [--] seats and BNP is leading in only [--] seats. This is divergent from what is being reported elsewhere. This is from Jamaat's FaceBook page. Ekkator TV BNP [--] seats Jamaat [--] seats Ekkator TV BNP [--] seats Jamaat [--] seats" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2021980531110600955) 2026-02-12T16:11Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "Waiting for Tarique Rahman the new #Bangladesh prime minister in waiting to appear at large press conference in Dhaka" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2022598153472475150) 2026-02-14T09:05Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "Read this article to help understand the power held by two YouTubers one living in the US and another in France on the politics of #Bangladesh - including how they at times incite or support political violence in the country. https://www.boomlive.in/amp/decode/pinaki-bhattacharya-elias-hossain-youtubers-orchestrated-mob-violence-bangladesh-america-france-30629 https://www.boomlive.in/amp/decode/pinaki-bhattacharya-elias-hossain-youtubers-orchestrated-mob-violence-bangladesh-america-france-30629" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2019598394260640018) 2026-02-06T02:25Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements "It is great to know that the Awami League in #bangladesh are now interested in vote rigging Police in Lakshmipur have uncovered a chilling glimpse into how elections can be manipulated: a printing press owner arrested with six illegally made election seals along with seized devices used to produce them. Ordered by unknown hands these tools raise serious questions https://t.co/l7TukUfSNx Police in Lakshmipur have uncovered a chilling glimpse into how elections can be manipulated: a printing press owner arrested with six illegally made election seals along with seized devices used to produce" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2019605379093852334) 2026-02-06T02:53Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements "@BabarHoneyX Perhaps you should first find out why a person is in a photo with another person before making insinuations and inferences" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2019655364061589611) 2026-02-06T06:12Z 83.8K followers, [---] engagements "Whether at the elections the #Bangladesh Nationalist Party holds on or Jamaat-e-Islami manages to squeak through the scale of shift in support towards the islamist party has been dramatic over the last [--] months. Here are [--] reasons that explain why. My article for @dailystarnews https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/views/news/eight-reasons-explain-the-rise-jamaat-e-islami-4100626 https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/views/news/eight-reasons-explain-the-rise-jamaat-e-islami-4100626" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2020364507378569445) 2026-02-08T05:10Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "Whether you are in favour of the July Charter proposals or not the wording in #Bangladesh's referendum question set out in four separate categories only clearly match with [--] of the [--] numbered proposals set out in the July charter. This lack of clarity could well be a source of legal and political contention after the election. My article in @CounterpointBD https://counterpointbd.com/which-charter-reforms https://counterpointbd.com/which-charter-reforms" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2020802365868187786) 2026-02-09T10:10Z 83.9K followers, [----] engagements "Who Will Win the Bangladesh elections taking place in two days time In an article I wrote in October [----] in the context of why the government should appoint international judges to the International Crimes Tribunal I observed: When it comes to fair elections a basic criterion is the presence of jeopardyreal uncertainty about who will win. Bangladesh is very much in that position now andassuming polling day proceeds smoothlyit will remain so until the votes are counted. That said there are three outcomes we can state with a reasonable degree of confidence. First the islamist Jamaat-e-Islami" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2021119611975106970) 2026-02-10T07:10Z 83.9K followers, [----] engagements "This is rather dangerous. The leader of #Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami "confidently predicting" that his party has won the election (taking place on [--] February) before a single vote has been given or counted creates a situation where if the vote goes against Jamaat (which is more likely than not) that he will say the election has been stolen from them. Who knows what poll the Jamaat is quoting below but the vast majority of polls put the BNP in the lead. Obama won with Yes We Can when every newspaper said a Black man could never become President of America. In Sri Lanka and Nepal" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2021186824039956538) 2026-02-10T11:37Z 84K followers, 11.9K engagements ""Still for many voters the choice of parties on offer falls well short of the hopes that followed [--] August. On one side stands a centrist but largely unreformed Bangladesh Nationalist Party likely to thwart important governance reforms; on the other an Islamist party seen as less tainted by corruption yet carrying the inherent risks associated with placing a religiously fundamentalist movement in power." New piece on the forthcoming election for @ips_journal https://www.ips-journal.eu/topics/democracy-and-society/the-limits-of-a-fresh-start-8850/" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2021444886361207011) 2026-02-11T04:43Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "#Bangladesh election. It looks like this may well not be the election that the interim government hoped for Claim and counter claim - as Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Jamaat-e-Islami battle for dominance on the eve of the vote. Difficult to assess the truth https://www.thedailystar.net/news/national-election-2026/news/tension-narayanganj-polling-centre-over-alleged-ballot-tampering-4103981 https://www.thedailystar.net/news/national-election-2026/news/tension-narayanganj-polling-centre-over-alleged-ballot-tampering-4103981" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2021640336947265901) 2026-02-11T17:39Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "It may not be perfect but no political party has pulled out of the #Bangladesh election. A good sign" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2021835185940242591) 2026-02-12T06:34Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "Very unfortunate. Party agents are crucial to a free and fair election. They are the key election monitors. If they are not allowed inside polling stations then one can assume there is some kind of dirty games going on https://www.thedailystar.net/news/national-election-2026/news/tasnim-jara-alleges-obstruction-polling-agents-4104351 https://www.thedailystar.net/news/national-election-2026/news/tasnim-jara-alleges-obstruction-polling-agents-4104351" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2021835675360801160) 2026-02-12T06:36Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "Keep your eyes on voter turnout By noon typically a slower period 32.88% of voters had cast ballots in 77% of polling stations according to the EC. The Awami Leagues absence has not predictably led to widespread voter drop-off though its GopalganjFaridpurShariatpur strongholds will be exceptions. By noon typically a slower period 32.88% of voters had cast ballots in 77% of polling stations according to the EC. The Awami Leagues absence has not predictably led to widespread voter drop-off though its GopalganjFaridpurShariatpur strongholds will be exceptions" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2021861509949759885) 2026-02-12T08:18Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "Someone has helpfully sent me the official voter turnouts in all the previous national elections in #bangladesh. A key indicator of the success or otherwise of the #Bangladesh election will be voter turnout. With the Awami League excluded from the ballot even if that exclusion is considered justified questions about the elections legitimacy are likely to arise. The absence of one of A key indicator of the success or otherwise of the #Bangladesh election will be voter turnout. With the Awami League excluded from the ballot even if that exclusion is considered justified questions about the" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2021897256593506535) 2026-02-12T10:40Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "In order to ensure free and fair elections tomorrow in #Bangladesh it is important that minority communities where they feel at risk are given appropriate protection and support to help them vote when that is what they wish to do. It has been brought to my attention that at least a section of the Hindu community in Panchagarh1 have written to the Election Commission raising concerns about the law and order situation and asking for assistance so that they can vote. I do hope that in such situations like this (I am sure that this is not the only one) the Election Commission in tandem with those" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2021622178630774935) 2026-02-11T16:27Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "Counting of votes has started in #BangladeshElections2026. This picture shows counting in Siddeshwari girl school in Dhaka- constituency [--]. Party agents all watching on the right (not shown in this picture.)" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2021906811809669207) 2026-02-12T11:18Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "Useful summary of #Bangladesh election results so far by @NetraNews. Though early days" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2021969982457008145) 2026-02-12T15:29Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "BBC is giving [--] seats to BNP and [--] to Jamaat Ekkator TV is giving [--] to BNP and [--] to Jamaat Not quite sure what accounts for the difference Useful summary of #Bangladesh election results so far by @NetraNews. Though early days. https://t.co/hqO1W4moDh Useful summary of #Bangladesh election results so far by @NetraNews. Though early days. https://t.co/hqO1W4moDh" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2021972341740499399) 2026-02-12T15:39Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "From @NetraNews Dont know what to make of this but Jamaat claims that it is leading in [--] seats and BNP is leading in only [--] seats. This is divergent from what is being reported elsewhere. This is from Jamaat's FaceBook page. https://t.co/1AthhuNO0g Dont know what to make of this but Jamaat claims that it is leading in [--] seats and BNP is leading in only [--] seats. This is divergent from what is being reported elsewhere. This is from Jamaat's FaceBook page. https://t.co/1AthhuNO0g" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2021989381486375373) 2026-02-12T16:46Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "Should add: BBC is still only formally announcing BNP - [--] seats Jamaat - [--] seats" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2022011295369920895) 2026-02-12T18:13Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "A lot of sighs of relief in Bangladesh this morning" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2022132409060536648) 2026-02-13T02:15Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "A lot wrong here. [--]. re point 2: There is no evidence as yet to suggest that it was "women voters" as such who prevented Jamaat-e-Islami from coming to power. There is evidence however that the Jamaat's defeat in many consituencies was down to a sufficient number of Awami League voters supporting the BNP. [--]. re point 3: This is so sloppy and conspiratorial. The claim that "the US-UK" gave "all-out backing" to the Jamaat is simply ridiculous. As is the idea that the Mohammad Yunus's "master" is Western governments and international NGOs. [--]. re 5th point: Bangladesh does not have a "secular" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2022232851148652938) 2026-02-13T08:54Z 84K followers, 21.1K engagements "Following yesterday's election in #Bangladesh in a number of parliamentary constituencies either the margins of victory are small or there is a candidate who feel there has been a problem with the counting of votes. The Election Commission should be liberal in allowing recounts where there are legitimate concerns so that any questions can be laid to rest. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022249374710169934 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022249374710169934" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2022249374710169934) 2026-02-13T09:59Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "At today's press conference Tarique Rahman Bangladesh's prime minister-in-waiting was asked this question by a journalist: "Many people in Bangladesh remain supporters of the Awami League. What kind or types of reconciliation should there be for them in Bangladesh." He answered: "By ensuring rule of law". It was a short response but potentially a significant one - as if the new BNP government follows through with that mindset many of the problems in the last [--] months that have beset those Awami League activists or supporters - who were not complicit in July/August [----] violence but have" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2022662905553174879) 2026-02-14T13:23Z 84K followers, 13.1K engagements "Excellent debunking of disinformation on the [----] Bangladesh election. Dismislab collected at least a dozen social media posts and comments whose core message was that without manipulation or conspiracy Jamaat alliance candidates would have won many more seats. But what do the statistics say Read here: https://t.co/qT0d4MuEo2 #Bangladesh https://t.co/7FbxFvo9Sz Dismislab collected at least a dozen social media posts and comments whose core message was that without manipulation or conspiracy Jamaat alliance candidates would have won many more seats. But what do the statistics say Read here:" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2022747344576622614) 2026-02-14T18:58Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "One year on from the July/August [----] protest killings in #Bangladesh my reckoning on the current status of the process of accountability for those responsible (written before the start of the Sheikh Hasina trial) @ProthomAlo https://en.prothomalo.com/opinion/op-ed/i5n2f2rb8g https://en.prothomalo.com/opinion/op-ed/i5n2f2rb8g" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1952658030312718398) 2025-08-05T09:08Z 84.4K followers, [---] engagements "These are my initial comments on the "July Declaration" read out today by the leader of #Bangladesh's interim government Muhammad Yunus. [--]. Much of the history - as well as description of the Awami League - set out in this declaration is highly biased and partial and seems to just represent the views of those who hate the Awami League not just for what the party has done whilst in government but for what the party is to them that is to say a political adversary. That is to say much of it reads like a political tract written by long standing adversaries and critics of the Awami League. [--]. As a" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1952745943457259951) 2025-08-05T14:58Z 84.4K followers, 16.8K engagements "What a holiday this must have been https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/politics/news/ncp-serves-show-cause-notices-five-leaders-over-coxs-bazar-trip-aug-5-3956811 https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/politics/news/ncp-serves-show-cause-notices-five-leaders-over-coxs-bazar-trip-aug-5-3956811" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1953054493790048423) 2025-08-06T11:24Z 84.4K followers, [----] engagements "If you have not already seen @ProthomAlo's new film on Jatrabari on [--] August [----] you really should. Earlier in the year ITJP/TGI launched a [--] minute film that centred on the police station in one particular hour of the day just as Sheikh Hasina the prime minister of #Bangladesh fled to India. This new film expands extensively on this and analyses video throughout the day from many different sources and investigates the dozens of deaths. It is an impressive piece of journalism and film making. It is in Bengali but has English sub-titles https://www.prothomalo.com/video/bangladesh/0uitescup6" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1953415424344830033) 2025-08-07T11:18Z 84.5K followers, [---] engagements "Bangladesh's Anti Corruption Commission has yet to disclose the evidence against Tulip Siddiq MP whose trial for allegedly influencing her Aunt the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to give her mother and siblings land in a new development scheme starts tomorrow. However whilst the former prime minister herself and other members of her family may have been involved in some underhand dealings in this transaction it seems difficult to imagine that Tulip would have done what is alleged against her. This is a story about the illegal allocation in [----] by Hasina of plots of land to members of" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1954532437620392224) 2025-08-10T13:17Z 84.4K followers, 10.2K engagements "Shomi Kaiser former actress and now business woman as well as once strong supporter of the Awami League was arrested in November [----] for the attempted murder of a young person shot on [--] July in Uttara during the July/August protests. She was refused bail in the lower courts. In December [----] the High Court granted her "interim" bail. However instead of being released the Attorney General's office obtained a stay from the Appellate Division stopping the High Court bail order. When the bail application came up three months later for a full hearing in the High Court in March [----] the Court" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1955157112822304943) 2025-08-12T06:39Z 84.4K followers, [----] engagements "This is an interesting development at Bangladesh's International Criminal Court. Junior lawyers representing senior advocate ZI Khan Panna approached the Tribunal today and requested that he be appointed as a "state appointed" lawyer for the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina. Apparently he has made requests to the ICT Registrar earlier but had received no response. The former prime minister already has a state appointed lawyer Amir Hossain who is also representing the former Home Minister. Panna it should be said is also a more senior lawyer with an extensive chambers of junior lawyers. The" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1955180709246640158) 2025-08-12T08:13Z 84.4K followers, [----] engagements "A year on from the July/August [----] protests Bangladesh authorities should take the appropriate steps to immediately release anyone currently detained in a murder or attempted murder case relating to killings or injuries in July/August unless the police have at least one of these pieces of evidence: (a) a picture or video of that person present at the location of the shooting; or (b) mobile phone records that locate that person present at the scene of the shooting; or (c) emails or text messages that show that person is in some way connected to that shooting; or (d) audio recordings or phone" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1955865317256708582) 2025-08-14T05:33Z 84.4K followers, [----] engagements "I agree. This includes such a distorted and politicised view of #bangladesh history where all evils of the country are the responsibility of Mujib and the Awami League. This is simply the diametrically opposite view of the Awami League and is as anti-intellectual as so much of the Awami leagues version of history was and is. . But on the other hand I suppose it is good that we now know exactly what the NCP thinks and I suppose stands for. This is a politicized mis-reading of history. What Hasina did was not pre-determined by her father. They both made their own hideous mistakes. This attempt" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1956628194129485977) 2025-08-16T08:04Z 84.4K followers, [----] engagements "Sheikh Mujib took over a country that had been in a nine months war where hundreds of thousands of civilians had been killed where millions had become refugees. We rightly credit the Yunus government for assisting with the stability of Bangladesh after [--] August [----] where just under a thousand had been killed in [--] weeks but can you imagine how tough it was for the Mujib government to stabilise Bangladesh immediately after this [--] month war with a completely broken economy and polity. Nonetheless there is no doubt much to criticise about Mujib's government. The Rakhi Bahini the decision to set" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1956715086011101542) 2025-08-16T13:50Z 84.4K followers, [----] engagements "From bad to worse. A victim of a mob a rickshaw driver gets arrested by the #bangladesh police on a July [----] attempted murder case filed months ago where his name had not been originally listed. A police officer tells the court that new eyewitness evidence links the rickshaw driver to the murder. If anyone should be prosecuted it should be the police officer for very obviously lying to the court and the magistrate for going along with it. When it comes to the criminal justice system - the police the prosecutors the magistrates etc - it is acting in just as repressive a manner as it did in" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1956790151520342235) 2025-08-16T18:48Z 84.4K followers, [----] engagements "I have just read an unofficial English version of the current [--] page July Charter which has been sent around to #Bangladesh political parties. It is supposed to represent a consensus amongst political parties. My thoughts: [--]. This is a dense document and it will take time to digest but at first glance most of the proposals appear to be common-sense progressive reforms seeking more independent state institutions and a reduction of power in the hands of the prime minister. It includes the kind of reforms that I think most people interested in constitutional reform would agree with; [--]. I notice" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1956950482242445528) 2025-08-17T05:25Z 84.3K followers, [----] engagements "It is good that it is now being reported that the magistrate gave bail the following day and that the police officer is being asked to account for himself . However two things come out of this. First is the control the #Bangladesh government has over magistrates. If it wants someone to get bail or indeed not get bail the Bangladesh government can ensure that happens (no different of course from the past). Secondly whilst at some level the police officer should account for himself on a day to day basis police officers routinly lie and deceive the courts as part of getting magistrates to refuse" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1957328117812605074) 2025-08-18T06:26Z 84.4K followers, [----] engagements "Extraordinary if found to be true "According to a recent progress report compiled with intelligence from at least nine foreign financial watchdogs the #Bangladesh S. Alam Group is accused of siphoning off nearly [------] crore takaabout $20 billionthrough a network of at least [---] shell companies registered across nine countries." @ZulkarnainSaer https://en.banglaoutlook.org/investigation/235715 https://en.banglaoutlook.org/investigation/235715" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1958153195114450990) 2025-08-20T13:04Z 84.4K followers, [----] engagements "Here is the May [----] article published in #Bangladesh's The New Age that broke the story that Sukhranjan Bali a defence witness in the war crimes trial of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee was being detained in an Indian Jail. In November [----] n the day he was due to give evidence Bali was picked up and disappeared from outside the International Crimes Tribunal. Bali is now back in the news as he gave a press conference today outside the ICT" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1958477681198313576) 2025-08-21T10:34Z 84.4K followers, [----] engagements "For those interested in the abduction of the defence witness Sukhranjan Bali in November [----] from outside the #Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal read my articles and investigation from the time. https://bangladeshwarcrimes.blogspot.com/2012/11/abduction-of-defense-witness-outside.html Here is the May [----] article published in #Bangladesh's The New Age that broke the story that Sukhranjan Bali a defence witness in the war crimes trial of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee was being detained in an Indian Jail. In November [----] n the day he was due https://t.co/Qcheios25B" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1958483452849750184) 2025-08-21T10:56Z 84.4K followers, [---] engagements "An appropriately blistering critique from the @nytimes on the FBI investigation into John Bolton . Reading this though one wonders if Trump is taking a lesson from the Yunus government in #bangladesh (or the previous Awami Leage government) whose criminal justice system is also targeting former political adversaries. In Bangladesh however they imprison them without investigation or evidence. Including a former Chief Justice https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/opinion/trump-john-bolton-raid.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/opinion/trump-john-bolton-raid.html" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1959196657737666960) 2025-08-23T10:10Z 84.4K followers, [---] engagements "Much more attention needs to be given to the poor evidential basis by which Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal has arrested some of the [---] people currently detained for alleged Crimes against Humanity relating to the July/August killings. Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury the Energy Adviser to Bangladesh's former prime minister Sheikh Hasina has been detained for ten months but the "Allegation" on which he was detained was factually flawed and there is no basis to continue to hold him in detention. My piece for @ProthomAlo https://en.prothomalo.com/opinion/op-ed/gy8h4xqbj5" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1960993619080331411) 2025-08-28T09:11Z 84.4K followers, [----] engagements "#Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal really must revise its Rules of Procedure to prevent the kind of arbitrary arrests and continuing detentions that are happening to at least some of those detained under it with the [--] month detention of former Hasina Energy Adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi an illustrative example. The rules - which allows detention without any evidential threshold - are the same rules as those that existed when the Awami League government was in power when they prosecuted Jamaat-e-Islami and other leaders. Then the ICT defence lawyers criticised the procedural rules relating" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1961082488932983216) 2025-08-28T15:04Z 84.4K followers, [---] engagements "It is unclear who within the Bangladesh government/ police decided that the best way to handle the disruption of the "Mancha 1971" meeting was by arresting its organisers/ participants including the former Awami League politician Latif Siddique. But whoever the decision makers were they certainly were not acting in the best interest of either the government or the country. Whether you agree or disagree with what was said or was likely to be said at the meeting - and no doubt some of it would have been judged as provocative to the ears of some people and some political parties - it is clear" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1961357187407659039) 2025-08-29T09:16Z 84.4K followers, [----] engagements "Yesterday at the launch of a report by Shopran a new human rights group the government's press secretary @CApress_sec Shafiqul Alam disparaged human rights reporting done by local Bangladesh groups and the country's media and called for the involvement of international human rights groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. Well today @hrw has itself issued a press release condemning the Bangladesh government's use of Anti-Terrorism legislation against critics. What does Shafiqul Alam now have to say The interim government should not be engaging in the same partisan behaviour" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1976163019509150202) 2025-10-09T05:49Z 84.2K followers, [----] engagements "Why is there not more concern in #Bangladesh about how the current Yunus government has given two television licences to two students/leaders - a perfect example of old fashion "Awami League-style" corruption/cronyism. This is exactly how Mozammel Babu was given a license for Ekushey TV - and we know how that turned out. Who is currently in charge of the ministry that gave the licenses Oh yes. None other than Mahfuj Alam another student leader. What a surprise https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/ul0pqkdoj2 https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/ul0pqkdoj2" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1976266062347022715) 2025-10-09T12:38Z 84.1K followers, 24.1K engagements "For readers of the runes of #Bangladesh's current political party preferences (post the ousting of Sheikh Hasina in August 2024) the economist Jyoti Rahman has written a useful blog looking at all four of the major opinion polls in the country. Many in Bangladesh are very sniffy about polls but what Jyoti shows is the general confluence of their findings suggesting the polls should be treated with some respect. They show that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party is consistently ahead of Jamaat-e-Islami but only by a few percentage points; Awami League still retains solid support (at around half" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1977596144877490636) 2025-10-13T04:43Z 84.1K followers, [---] engagements "In the despair hope and miracles here is a story of true extraordinary heroism in #Bangladesh's building collapse http://t.co/H4LpQzQLTP http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bangladesh/10021023/45-a-month-hero-amputated-girls-hand-to-save-her-from-factory-carnage.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bangladesh/10021023/45-a-month-hero-amputated-girls-hand-to-save-her-from-factory-carnage.html" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/327859028623495169) 2013-04-26T18:57Z 79.2K followers, [--] engagements "In the despair hope and miracles here is a story of extraordinary heroism in #Bangladesh's building collapse http://t.co/H4LpQzQLTP http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bangladesh/10021023/45-a-month-hero-amputated-girls-hand-to-save-her-from-factory-carnage.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bangladesh/10021023/45-a-month-hero-amputated-girls-hand-to-save-her-from-factory-carnage.html" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/327968467858903040) 2013-04-27T02:12Z 79.2K followers, [--] engagements "#bangladesh president of Institute of Architects: Change of occupancy is a v dangerous thing re New Age disclosure http://t.co/yQYZIJb717 http://www.newagebd.com/detail.phpdate=2013-05-04&nid=48071 http://www.newagebd.com/detail.phpdate=2013-05-04&nid=48071" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/330496373835313152) 2013-05-04T01:37Z 82.7K followers, [--] engagements "Takeaways from last saturday's leaked telephone conversation between #bangladesh prime minister and opposition leader http://t.co/ax5uf3OAln http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2013/10/seven-take-aways-from-leaked-phone-call.html http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2013/10/seven-take-aways-from-leaked-phone-call.html" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/395837225402785792) 2013-10-31T08:58Z 79.2K followers, [--] engagements "And the audio recording of #bangladesh prime minister's press conference to the international media is now here http://t.co/6k4DBAUpif http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2014/01/hasinas-press-conference-to.html http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2014/01/hasinas-press-conference-to.html" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/421621140927164416) 2014-01-10T12:34Z 79.2K followers, [--] engagements "The #bangladesh prime minister's son's hyperbolic attack on the country's most popular newspaper http://t.co/OnDrMqaZZO http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2014/05/sajeebs-attack-on-prothom-alo.html http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2014/05/sajeebs-attack-on-prothom-alo.html" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/470834026014466048) 2014-05-26T07:49Z 79.2K followers, [--] engagements "Credible reports that international award winning photographer Shahidul Alam has been picked up from his home in Dhaka by over [--] law enforcement officers after giving live interview to Al Jazeera about current student protests" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1026150937096859649) 2018-08-05T17:00Z 84.1K followers, [---] engagements "This is what a Bangladesh minister said "Coronovirus will not be able to do anything to us as long as Sheikh Hasina is here" https://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/news/coronavirus-what-ministers-leaders-said-1883698 https://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/news/coronavirus-what-ministers-leaders-said-1883698" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1241294012763508736) 2020-03-21T09:22Z 83.6K followers, [----] engagements "#Bangladesh calling. Sound familiar "Leaders are most likely to try and stay in power when they believe that their presence is essential to maintain political stability; in cases when they are less committed to plural politics; when they have engaged in high-level corruption and/or human rights abuses; when they lack trust in rival leaders and political institutions; when they have been in power for a longer period of time; and when they control geostrategically important states with natural resources effective security forces weak institutions and high levels of distrust." @dailystarnews" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1734373612923089171) 2023-12-12T00:44Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements ""India will back Sheikh Hasina from the top. My interview with Avinash Paliwal (@PaliwalAvi) one of the most informed academics writing on Bangladesh-India relations. https://netra.news/2024/india-will-back-sheikh-hasina-from-the-top/ https://netra.news/2024/india-will-back-sheikh-hasina-from-the-top/" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1744112081534701927) 2024-01-07T21:41Z 83.8K followers, 16.6K engagements "Said yesterday. Sadly happened today" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1820057591587700754) 2024-08-04T11:21Z 83.8K followers, 64.7K engagements "Over [--] people killed so far today in #Bangladesh. Many protestors from police shootings but also deaths of some Awami League supporters. And now the government has again brought in indefinite curfew. This new violence helps the Awami League seek to stay in power" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1820057593768706329) 2024-08-04T11:22Z 83.8K followers, 16.3K engagements "The @thetimes followed up on the @MailOnline report on Tulip Siddiq MP. The new information is that: - Labour sources said that she was paying rent on the new house at a rate "consistent with market levels"; - a treasury spokesman said Siddiq had disclosed her property arrangements to the department and they were "being considered" as part of the usual decleration of interest process." It is odd that the the labour party and the Treasury chose not say any of this when asked to respond to questions put by @MailOnline before the Sunday article was published on Sunday. Nor do these responses" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1822959081411485831) 2024-08-12T11:31Z 84K followers, 22.3K engagements "There are I understand many young people in Bangladesh along with the supposedly wiser heads who instigated it feeling good about the destruction of Sheikh Mujib's house in Road no [--]. They feel they have landed a blow on the Awami League and Sheikh Hasina sending her and the party a strong message in response to her denialism and provocations. No unfortunately they have allowed their emotions get the better of them and instead have done exactly the opposite and instead provided Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League a great strategic victory. Days before Trump meets Modi they have allowed Modi" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1887588837062578537) 2025-02-06T19:47Z 83.7K followers, 20.8K engagements "If true this would be another extremely bad decision by the Interim government. I do hope Asif Mahmud is speaking out of turn. If he wants the Awami League to be defeated do so at the ballot box. https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/govt-take-steps-soon-ban-awami-league-adviser-asif-3818486 https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/govt-take-steps-soon-ban-awami-league-adviser-asif-3818486" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1887876759456026855) 2025-02-07T14:51Z 83.4K followers, 53.4K engagements "Pleased to see this statement issued just now. ----------------- DHAKA February 10: The Chief Adviser strongly condemns the mob attack on a bookstall at Ekushey Book Fair. The attack shows contempt for both the rights of Bangladeshi citizens and for the laws of our country. Such violence betrays the open-minded spirit of this great Bangladeshi cultural fixture which commemorates the language martyrs who lost their lives on [--] February [----] in defence of their mother tongue. Today the Ekushey Boimela is a daily meeting place for our writers and readers. The Interim Government has ordered" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1889018024755347857) 2025-02-10T18:26Z 83.4K followers, [----] engagements "This is very important to Bangladesh. The UN Human Rights Office is holding a news conference in Geneva later today at 2.30pm Bangladesh time (8.30 am UK time; [----] am Geneva time) to launch the OHCHR Fact-Finding Report: Human Rights Violations and Abuses related to the Protests of July and August [----] in Bangladesh The news conference will be broadcast live on UN Web TV https://webtv.un.org/en https://webtv.un.org/en" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1889535219394363499) 2025-02-12T04:41Z 83.5K followers, [----] engagements "I must say reading through the UN Bangladesh report not only is it a detailed indictment of senior echelons of the Awami League government itself it also presents a devastating picture of the Awami League as a party many of whose student and youth activists collaborated with the police in the violent suppression of the protests" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1889637101714526472) 2025-02-12T11:26Z 83.5K followers, [----] engagements "UN Fact Finding Report on Bangladesh This is a thread setting out the key findings of the UN Human Rights Fact Finding Report on human rights violations in #Bangladesh between [--] July to [--] August [----]. (This particular thread does not include the report's findings on recriminatory violence and root causes) @ohchr" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1889846361861861588) 2025-02-13T01:17Z 83.6K followers, 23.7K engagements "10. Killing of Abu Sayed One of the first killings that took place was that of the student Abu Sayed on [--] July and video of the police shooting at him went viral on social media. Awami League/supporters have questioned whether the police were actually responsible for his death and so it is notable that the UN report discusses his death in some detail (see Case [--] page 18). The report concludes that: "Based on reliable and consistent victim and witness accounts and videos OHCHR has reasonable grounds to believe direct police involvement in and responsibility for his killing. Police in" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1889846406657044661) 2025-02-13T01:17Z 83.4K followers, [---] engagements "11. Systematic indiscriminate use of shotguns loaded with lethal ammunition The UN report also looks at the wider use of shotguns by law enforcement officials. (p.22) "Abu Sayeds extrajudicial killing by shotguns is emblematic of a larger trend of Bangladesh Police systematically firing short-barrelled stockless shotguns loaded with lethal metal pellets at protesters from the early stages of the protests until their very end. The use of shotguns loaded metal pellets in public order management is not in line with international human rights law. The wide radius of the spreading metal shot makes" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1889846410390151515) 2025-02-13T01:17Z 83.4K followers, [---] engagements "13: Extra-Judicial killings and orders to kill The report describes many examples of extra-judicial injuries and killings. - on [--] July in Uttara: "The situation escalated in the early afternoon. Witnesses described police and RAB firing lethal ammunition from military rifles from different locations at protesters. Witnesses and images also confirm the police shooting from the rooftop of Uttara Police Station. Hundreds of protesters suffered gunshot wounds and several were shot dead. One nearby hospital recorded [--] injured patients and six deaths on that day out of which five were students." [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1889846419260924227) 2025-02-13T01:17Z 83.4K followers, [---] engagements "14. Involvement of army in killings The UN report were able to document "three instances in which Bangladesh Army deliberately shot military rifles loaded with lethal ammunition at protesters". In only one of those incidents on [--] August is there evidence that someone had been killed. At about [--] am hundreds of protesters had gathered in front of Jamuna Future Park near Bushandara Residential Area. The report states: "According to witnesses Army units were already positioned there. Approximately twenty army soldiers assembled in a line reportedly positioned 30-40 meters away from the" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1889846422926705045) 2025-02-13T01:17Z 83.4K followers, [---] engagements "An Indian journalist at the Trump-Modi press conference tried to get Trump to answer a question on a disinformation-conspiracy theory claiming that the US deep state was involved in the overthrow of the Hasina government. Trump just said "There was no role for our deep-state" before adding something that made no sense " . this is something that the prime minister has been working on a long time and has been working on for hundreds of years frankly" and then ended by saying "but I will leave Bangladesh to the prime minister" and then then turned to Modi." [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1890424794530693272) 2025-02-14T15:36Z 83.6K followers, 22.8K engagements "White is black. Black is white Kind of tragic. Opne would imagine that Awami League and Indian supporters can do better than this surely 🎯 Muhammad Yunus is maintaing a band of Goebbels. While his DPS claimed Yunus spoke to Elon Musk on phone office of Yunus says he "held an extensive video discussion" with Musk to "explore future collaboration". Both are blatant lies. Instead reality is President Trump is https://t.co/w6ruJwwfEI 🎯 Muhammad Yunus is maintaing a band of Goebbels. While his DPS claimed Yunus spoke to Elon Musk on phone office of Yunus says he "held an extensive video" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1890467928752947365) 2025-02-14T18:27Z 83.6K followers, [----] engagements "Just extraordinary levels of disinformation coming from Trump about Ukraine as he bends towards Russia as the USs new ally. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/19/factchecking-donald-trump-claims-war-ukraineCMP=share_btn_url https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/19/factchecking-donald-trump-claims-war-ukraineCMP=share_btn_url" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1892208052440289403) 2025-02-19T13:42Z 83.6K followers, [----] engagements "Bangladesh's new interim government has started the process of seeking accountability of politicians and security force officials accused of crimes against humanity/murders during mass protests of summer [----] - but politicisation is already marring the process. Six months on my summary on where #Bangladesh stands in seeking accountability for the hundreds of unarmed protestors (and others) killed in July/August [----]. https://t.co/0Rf94BtNpv Six months on my summary on where #Bangladesh stands in seeking accountability for the hundreds of unarmed protestors (and others) killed in July/August" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1893684759613567260) 2025-02-23T15:30Z 83.7K followers, [----] engagements "Important to note this. In [----] the US Biden administration sanctioned #Bangladesh's Rapid Action Battalion and its senior officers for its involvement in extra judicial killings over the country's "war on drugs". Now in its own "war on drugs" the US Trump administration is extra judicial killing people by bombing boats in the Caribbean" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1981254334395609534) 2025-10-23T07:00Z 84.1K followers, [----] engagements "This is just so embarrassing. So it is not just that there is no change in #Bangladesh (between the former Awami League and the new interim government) in the politicisation of the law enforcement and judicial system but also it seems no change in the profligate use of state assets for the personal comfort of the country's leadership. I always understood that Yunus lived a modest life; however clearly when the Bangladesh government is paying for it not quite so modest So unnecessary. ( ) https://t.co/tLuvjGVNeP ( ) https://t.co/tLuvjGVNeP" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1982667200126447780) 2025-10-27T04:34Z 84K followers, 29.7K engagements ""The killings and arbitrary detentions of Awami League activists are deeply troubling but they fall well short of meeting the legal threshold for crimes against humanity. . Yet this conclusion should offer no solace. Some of the abuses described in the Doughty Street communication still amount to serious human rights violations and the interim government has done far too little to prevent or redress them." My take for @ProthomAlo on Awami League's "Crimes against Humanity" application to the International Criminal Court made by UK's Doughty Street chambers." [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1984961320379203603) 2025-11-02T12:30Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "This is a revealing statement from Bangladesh's Chief Justice made just a few days ago. He expresses concern when bail is granted but not when bail is routinely denied by the courts. In the fifteen months since assuming office he has taken no meaningful steps to ensure that the judiciary exercises independent oversight over the detention of hundreds likely thousands of individuals languishing in prison on un-investigated murder charges with no evidence to support the allegations against them. Instead the courts particularly magistrates and district judges continue to act at the direction of" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1985339431201735012) 2025-11-03T13:33Z 83.9K followers, [----] engagements "One of the notable achievements of Bangladesh's current interim government Bangladesh has been its attempt to end enforced disappearances a repressive tactic that became widespread during the Awami Leagues rule. The fear of being subjected to a "goom" - rather than just "arbitrary detained" - had grown pervasive among critics and opposition politicians alike. At first glance therefore the government deserves credit for approving a law that explicitly criminalises enforced disappearances - though the details of this legislation remain opaque for now. What is known though is deeply troubling:" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1986666134041481550) 2025-11-07T05:24Z 84K followers, [----] engagements "My article for @ProthomAlo on how local Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders in Savar are accused of weaponising a [--] August murder case to seize a business. "Successive governments have failed to empower independent and non-partisan actors within the justice system to challenge politically motivated detentions. Instead a nexus of political and commercial elites in power or aligned with the government have dominated law enforcement and prosecution. The aftermath of the JulyAugust killings has shown how this pattern persists. What should have been a moment of change has instead become a new" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1987059610776141885) 2025-11-08T07:28Z 84K followers, [---] engagements "There have in recent day been a series of crude bomb attacks at various locations across Dhaka in #Bangladesh outside a Christian church the Grameen Bank headquarters the NGO Prabartana and most recently the firebombing of two buses in the early hours of Monday. So far no casualties have been reported. While it would be premature to draw firm conclusions it seems reasonable to suspect that elements within the Awami League may be involved. Grameen Bank is of course associated with Dr. Muhammad Yunus head of the interim government while Prabartana is owned by Farida Akhter Adviser to the" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1987826933946524060) 2025-11-10T10:17Z 83.9K followers, [----] engagements "BREAKING: Judgement in trial concerning alleged crimes against humanity by the former #Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and former IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun will be on [--] November Monday the Bangladesh International Crimes tribunal announces" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1988853807200219584) 2025-11-13T06:17Z 83.9K followers, [----] engagements "Those interested in the trial of #bangladesh's former PM Sheikh Hasina and the overall justice process relating to the hundreds killed by Bangladesh law enforcement authorities in July [----] a new website has been launched. https://bangladesh2024justicewatch.org/https://bangladesh2024justicewatch.org/ https://bangladesh2024justicewatch.org/https://bangladesh2024justicewatch.org/" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1990151242015023353) 2025-11-16T20:13Z 83.9K followers, [----] engagements "Outside International Crimes Tribunal in #bangladesh as judgment in Sheikh Hasina trial will start to be read out within the hour" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1990276732981805245) 2025-11-17T04:32Z 83.9K followers, [----] engagements "BREAKING: Bangladesh Tribunal imposes death sentence to Sheikh Hasina former prime minister and Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal former home minister for crimes against humanity in the killings of protesters in July/August 2024" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1990345621719437803) 2025-11-17T09:05Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements "In the #bangladesh trial of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina sufficient evidence was available for a conviction but significant due process issues remain about the fairness of the proceedings in particular the inadequate defence that was provided to her and the former home minister in the in absentia trial. https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/evidence-strong-defence-did-bare-minimum-4037436 https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/evidence-strong-defence-did-bare-minimum-4037436" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1990637854066885041) 2025-11-18T04:27Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements "Exactly. For those unclear what the irony is - Sheikh Hasina organised as prime minister far more unfair trials at the International Crimes Tribunal than the one she has just now been judged in and after the previous trials the accused were in fact executed. Irony has been sentenced to death. Irony has been sentenced to death" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1990673914675007694) 2025-11-18T06:50Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements ""There are two particularly serious problems with the Sheikh Hasina trial" in #Bangladesh. My new article for @ProthomAlo on the in absentia trial of the former prime minister that resulted in her death penalty https://en.prothomalo.com/opinion/op-ed/narqdl3k4g https://en.prothomalo.com/opinion/op-ed/narqdl3k4g" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1991352746885382486) 2025-11-20T03:47Z 83.7K followers, [----] engagements "The senior UK lawyers who have written to the #Bangladesh government about the ongoing trial proceedings against Tulip Siddiq MP for alleged corruption are absolutely right that the standards of the trial which she is facing falls well below international standards. But the letter to the government as quoted in the Guardian newspaper suggests the lawyers have been misled by Siddiq. [--]. No lawyer allowed As Tulip Siddiq chose not to surrender herself to the court to face trial she is treated in Bangladesh law as a "fugitive". And under Bangladesh law as a "fugitive" for this kind of case (where" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1993564210673205714) 2025-11-26T06:15Z 83.6K followers, 23.1K engagements "If the #Bangladesh Chief Adviser can order the arrest of those who attacked the bauls I wonder why he cannot order the release of those arbitrarily detained for months on transparently false allegations of murder. https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/chief-adviser-has-ordered-arrests-over-attacks-bauls-shafiqul-4044956 https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/chief-adviser-has-ordered-arrests-over-attacks-bauls-shafiqul-4044956" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1994081454800949740) 2025-11-27T16:30Z 83.6K followers, [----] engagements "Sheikh Hasina family corruption trials: The need to end Bangladeshs Kangaroo court proceedings. https://bangladesh2024justicewatch.org/the-need-to-end-bangladeshs-kangaroo-court-proceedings/ https://bangladesh2024justicewatch.org/the-need-to-end-bangladeshs-kangaroo-court-proceedings/" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1995406290596901091) 2025-12-01T08:15Z 83.6K followers, [----] engagements "On this I agree with Tulip Siddiq MP as quoted in @guardian: "This whole process has been flawed and farcical from the beginning to the end. The outcome of this kangaroo court is as predictable as it is unjustified. I hope this so-called verdict will be treated with the contempt it deserves." Bangladesh you can and should be doing so much better Sheikh Hasina family corruption trials: The need to end Bangladeshs Kangaroo court proceedings. https://t.co/MRPizD7Ecq https://t.co/R6W8o36uru Sheikh Hasina family corruption trials: The need to end Bangladeshs Kangaroo court proceedings." [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1995407343543304698) 2025-12-01T08:19Z 83.6K followers, [----] engagements "What did the #Bangladesh judge say in sentencing Tulip Siddiq MP for [--] years imprisonment This case is all about the allotment of land plots by RAJUK (Capital Development Authority) to Sheikh Hasina (the former prime minister of Bangladesh) and her two children and to Sheikh Rehana (Hasina's sister) and two of her three children. Tulip Siddiq the third child did not receive a plot. The prosecution case is that Hasina had concealed information that she and her family members already had other plots/houses in the RAJUK area of Dhaka city which according to the rules should have meant that they" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1995438016001954207) 2025-12-01T10:21Z 83.6K followers, [----] engagements "The International Republican Institute's new [----] #bangladesh poll v its [----] poll. Discuss" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1995703465566445643) 2025-12-02T03:55Z 83.6K followers, [----] engagements "Some bad and good news for the Awami League in the International Republican Institute (IR) poll Bad news (for AL) is that an overwhelming percentage (70%) of people say they supported the protests that led to the removal of the Awami League. This finding cuts across their public relations attempts to argue that the vast majority of people still support the Awami League. And about the same percentage (69%) support the decision to suspend the registration of the Awami League. No love for the Awami League amongst the majorotty I would suggest that most of the 70% and 69% ( are the same people" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1995715260540731397) 2025-12-02T04:42Z 83.6K followers, [---] engagements "A crucial question for the forthcoming #Bangladesh election is the percentage of people who will vote. In [----] and [----] with the opposition parties boycotting the polls the official level of polling was around 40% (with many arguing that the real number was much less.) With the Awami League now not allowed to participate in the election and the former governing party possibly instructing its supporters not to vote one could forsee a situation where the level of votes could also remain low. However - putting to one side the wisdom or otherwise of not allowing the AL to take part in the" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1995722729916694995) 2025-12-02T05:12Z 83.6K followers, [---] engagements "And as to voting intention. Well it remains a close run thing. BNP at 33% and JI at 29%. Although the view of most commentators is that the BNP will win a majority the Jamaat-e-Islami remains a close second in the polls. It all depends on how the vote of these two parties is distributed around the country. What is newly significant about this poll is that the number of "don't knows" and "refused to say" is much lower than in previous post August [----] polls. It seems more people have made up their mind and there is less uncertainty" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/1995725564351840609) 2025-12-02T05:23Z 83.6K followers, [---] engagements "More crazy stuff by the #Bangladesh government. Journalist arrested under anti-terrorism act in a case that also names an actress and a model Quite rightly the govt talks about disinformation by the Awami League etc but it allows its own criminal justice system to be an even greater centre of disinformation. Barely a scintilla of truth in so many criminal cases and detentions. And these kinds of absurd arrests are completely the wrong response to the tragic assassination attempt on Sharif Osman Hadi. https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/hdvi3ks8v7" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2000621568452706479) 2025-12-15T17:38Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements "Here we go The current @Yunus_Centre Bangladesh government and its most ardent supporters seems blind to how they are replicating some of the worst of the repressive tactics previously used by the Awami League themselves against the Jamaat and BNP. Not so much Bangladesh [---] but minus [---] https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/nation/398982/arrest-awami-league-criminals-on-sight-no-need https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/nation/398982/arrest-awami-league-criminals-on-sight-no-need" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2001606840761667701) 2025-12-18T10:53Z 83.8K followers, 24.6K engagements "Very unsettling in #bangladesh as two of the countrys most independent newspapers @thedailystar and @ProthomAlo come under attack by mobs following the announcement of the death of the Inqilab Mancha Spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi after he was shot in the head. Where are the police/government https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/angry-group-protesters-vandalises-prothom-alo-building-daily-star-office-karwan-bazar https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/angry-group-protesters-vandalises-prothom-alo-building-daily-star-office-karwan-bazar" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2001729219781329136) 2025-12-18T19:00Z 83.8K followers, 68.6K engagements "One question on everyones lips is why did the #Bangladesh government and the countys security forces not respond more quickly to the mob violence against the newspapers and the Chhayanaut cultural institution last night It is all very well for the government to condemn it today (and they do seem to be saying the right things now) but the public needs to know that this kind of thing wont happen again and the security forces are ready to stop it" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2001943312023040375) 2025-12-19T09:10Z 83.8K followers, 20.5K engagements "There is some jeopardy in #bangladesh tomorrow Saturday with the burial of the student leader Hadi Whilst many politicians have indeed called for calm the event with thousands present in the capital city does nonetheless present an opportunity for other political actors not linked to mainstream parties to exploit. Lets hope for the best" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2002168825790541838) 2025-12-20T00:07Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements "There are so many threads going on right now in #Bangladesh that it is difficult for any journalist to bring it altogether in a single article. Here is @Sabir59's attempt for (one of the best online sites publishing on South Asia) https://thewire.in/south-asia/hadis-assassination-casts-a-shadow-over-bangladeshs-long-awaited-elections http://TheWire.in https://thewire.in/south-asia/hadis-assassination-casts-a-shadow-over-bangladeshs-long-awaited-elections http://TheWire.in" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2002694754262475147) 2025-12-21T10:56Z 83.8K followers, 18K engagements "This is damning of the #Bangladesh government in relation to its inaction in dealing with the mobs as they attacked newspapers cultural institutions on Thursday night. . Perhaps the govt has a good response but as far as I know we have not yet heard it. https://www.tbsnews.net/features/panorama/government-failure-and-police-silence-who-will-stop-mob-1314766 https://www.tbsnews.net/features/panorama/government-failure-and-police-silence-who-will-stop-mob-1314766" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2002695880596402600) 2025-12-21T11:01Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements "There is strong vocal group in #Bangladesh from the right and particularly the Islamic right who think that unless you hate or hated the people they hate or hated (meaning right now India the Awami League etc) as much as they themselves hate or hated them you are their enemies and you are friends and agents of those they hate. It is this extreme and uninformed mindset that is not only the enemy of a free press but is helping to prevent anything remotely like due process to develop within the countrys criminal justice system" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2002806434707493334) 2025-12-21T18:20Z 83.8K followers, 29.3K engagements "Hi @JonFDanilowicz. I would be surprised if that is really a legitimate fear in addition there is no chance of Hasina coming back to Bangladesh for a long time. What we are talking about here is extreme political/religious illiberalism which if allowed to dominate would prevent the functioning of independent institutions crucial to the operation of some kind of liberal democratic state which the July charter and other reforms are supposedly intended to help develop. The concern is that the interim government has given significant legitimacy to these positions and indeed much of its law" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2002883723163738612) 2025-12-21T23:27Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements "Just the fact that the National Citizens Party primarily comprising the students that led and supported the July [----] uprising are now negotiating with the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami to form an electoral alliance is surely one of the most depressing outcomes of the political changes that have occurred in #bangladesh since then" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2004257278053007806) 2025-12-25T18:25Z 83.8K followers, 14.6K engagements "In light of the Awami Leagues successful effort to imprison Khaleda Zia and its far less successful though ardently pursued attempt to dismantle her party the BNP it is unclear whether Sheikh Hasinas and Sajeeb Wazed Joys condolences and generous remarks following her death should be read as gestures of exceptional magnanimity and good grace or as expressions of profound and twisted hypocrisy. Or a bit of both" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2006074956166357047) 2025-12-30T18:48Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements "Toby Cadman has now provided this comment: "My contract expired in November and I was offered an extension but I decided not to extend it. It would not be appropriate to make any comment as to the reasons for stepping down. BREAKING: Toby Cadman the UK barrister and specialist in international criminal law has informed Muhammad Yunus that he is stepping down from his post as Special Adviser to the Chief Prosecutor of #Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal. No reasons have yet been provided. BREAKING: Toby Cadman the UK barrister and specialist in international criminal law has informed" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2013215486561997183) 2026-01-19T11:42Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements "The newly published written judgment of #Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal on the Hasina conviction for crimes against humanity raises questions about how the judges assessed an important piece of audio evidence. New piece in @ProthomAlo https://en.prothomalo.com/opinion/op-ed/nnbkqbh8fw https://en.prothomalo.com/opinion/op-ed/nnbkqbh8fw" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2013223569581395995) 2026-01-19T12:14Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements "Not sure @BabarHoneyX why you are making such personal attacks against @JonFDanilowicz. If you don't agree with his arguments question those rather than make your highly speculative assumptions about his motives. Jamaat paid for your first class flight tix so you could give a talk at Dhaka University. And your org RTF is funded by the NED Since NED is funded by the US Congress that means your organization receives U.S. government funding. So stop lying. Youre not doing this for free https://t.co/MR98vPbjtl Jamaat paid for your first class flight tix so you could give a talk at Dhaka" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2015685305102225477) 2026-01-26T07:16Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements "@BabarHoneyX @JonFDanilowicz This is my last response on this. First he is not saying what you are suggesting. Quite the opposite from my reading. Second he is not and is not intending to speak on behalf of Bangladesh. Just himself" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/2015896056647537012) 2026-01-26T21:14Z 83.8K followers, [--] engagements "A lot of secular looking unveiled woman protesting the execution of Molla A picture blunder by @guardian See here http://t.co/mxITI2QED1 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/15/prison-bangladesh-moudud-ahmed http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/15/prison-bangladesh-moudud-ahmed" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/412227277347254272) 2013-12-15T14:26Z 84K followers, [--] engagements "Murder case filed against [--] #bangladesh opposition leaders - but where is the evidence http://t.co/jUXiR41GcG http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2013/12/countdown-to-bangladesh-upcoming_23.html http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2013/12/countdown-to-bangladesh-upcoming_23.html" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/415860356934668288) 2013-12-25T15:03Z 84K followers, [--] engagements "Want to know why #bangladesh govt not allowing opposition to organise 'rally for democracy' in capital Read this http://t.co/ygumlvkCxo http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2013/12/countdown-to-bangladesh-upcoming_23.html#bnp_rally http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2013/12/countdown-to-bangladesh-upcoming_23.html#bnp_rally" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/417032411730300928) 2013-12-28T20:40Z 84K followers, [--] engagements "#bangladesh PM's son that tomorrow's polls will be 'free and fair'. Is he right http://t.co/fqsCRJ9XJ0 http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2013/12/countdown-to-bangladesh-upcoming_30.html#freefair http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2013/12/countdown-to-bangladesh-upcoming_30.html#freefair" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/419435366664257536) 2014-01-04T11:49Z 84K followers, [--] engagements "The biggest strategic error in the run up to #bangladesh's election today. http://t.co/5LHFQZ7hzj http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2014/01/bangladesh-election-day-5-january-2014.html#strategicerror http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2014/01/bangladesh-election-day-5-january-2014.html#strategicerror" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/419649775466577920) 2014-01-05T02:01Z 84K followers, [--] engagements "Turnout figures in [---] constituencies based on #bangladesh election figures suggest 38% turnout. Credible http://t.co/pze9FZ8ML7 http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2014/01/bangladesh-election-day-5-january-2014.html#turnoutfigures http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2014/01/bangladesh-election-day-5-january-2014.html#turnoutfigures" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/420022752632778752) 2014-01-06T02:43Z 84K followers, [--] engagements "Russia: '#Bangladesh government is will of the voters' http://t.co/OAV5ITf9Sf http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2014/01/russia-bangladesh-government-is-will-of.html http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2014/01/russia-bangladesh-government-is-will-of.html" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/421870211713617920) 2014-01-11T05:04Z 84K followers, [--] engagements "It gets more hilarious The #bangladesh government's ever-so-loyal opposition - gets three minister-ships. http://t.co/PELrhCaX6f http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-governments-loyal-opposition.html http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-governments-loyal-opposition.html" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/422377734157774848) 2014-01-12T14:41Z 84K followers, [--] engagements "BBC report that Scotland Yard police searched London home of alleged IS recruiter arrested in #bangladesh http://t.co/Ya5iVNluto http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-29469865 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-29469865" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/518298194778660864) 2014-10-04T07:14Z 84K followers, [--] engagements "Who is to blame for #disappearances of opposition activists in #Bangladesh see @AJEnglish http://t.co/XWWEIdBIS8 http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/10/disappearances-surge-bangladesh-20141019124512338962.html http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/10/disappearances-surge-bangladesh-20141019124512338962.html" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/524132367783321600) 2014-10-20T09:37Z 84K followers, [--] engagements "My own little personal drama today in the #bangladesh appellate division https://www.facebook.com/david.bergman.77377/posts/10152879329758824pnref=story https://www.facebook.com/david.bergman.77377/posts/10152879329758824pnref=story" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/529133039654158336) 2014-11-03T04:48Z 84K followers, [--] engagements "@J_Allchin @tfexj According to press reports he went to president to raise issues about unfair trial. Mercy petitions must go through jailer" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDavidBergman/status/668148092957388800) 2015-11-21T19:24Z 84K followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @prothomalo @netranews @kchoudhu @sinanalharith @babarhoneyx @jonfdanilowicz @dailystarnews @guardian @in_tasin @basherabol @maruf52824981 @counterpointbd @ipsjournal @prothomalos @zulkarnainsaer @nytimes @capresssec @hrw @paliwalavi @thetimes
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"A key indicator of the success or otherwise of the #Bangladesh election will be voter turnout. With the Awami League excluded from the ballot even if that exclusion is considered justified questions about the elections legitimacy are likely to arise. The absence of one of the countrys major political forces risks leaving a substantial segment of the electorate effectively unrepresented. In this context turnout will serve as a crucial measure of legitimacy. A turnout in the range of [----] percent would suggest either that support for the Awami League has significantly diminished since July 2024"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:57Z 84K followers, 10.5K engagements
"Turnout by 2pm was just under 50% according to #bangladesh Election Commission. Seems unlikely to have reached 60% by end of voting. If so this is not a great turnout possibly denting legitimacy somewhat. In terms of results it also suggests a segment of the Awami League vote did not come out to vote probably benefiting the Jamaat-e-islami in the electoral race against the BNP https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021922279748235708 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021922279748235708"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:20Z 84K followers, 10.9K engagements
"Ekkator TV is now saying : BNP - [---] seats Jamaat - [--] seats Many of these are unofficial results and it is unclear what is their source. Jamaat however state very different (unofficial) results: BNP - [--] seats Jamaat - [--] seats Ekkator TV now saying: BNP [--] seats Jamaat [--] seats Ekkator TV now saying: BNP [--] seats Jamaat [--] seats"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:08Z 84K followers, 13K engagements
"#Bangladesh Election From @NetraNews "Facebook pages connected to Jamaat-e-Islami shared and promoted through paid advertising dozens of images that appear to show real individuals identified by name and profession but who are unlikely to exist. Social media accounts linked to the party have published more than two dozen photographs of purported voters as part of campaign materials. However experts consulted by Netra News said the people depicted in the images were likely not real and were probably created using artificial intelligence. The practice may breach Election Commission rules"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:14Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"The Jamaat-e-Islami candidate in Comilla [--] Shafiqul Helal claims that 30-40 polling stations in his constituency out of about [---] have been taken over by BNP. Can some journalists in Comilla [--] follow this up to determine whether this is accurate or not"
X Link 2026-02-12T06:52Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"Ekkator TV BNP [--] seats Jamaat [--] seats BBC is giving [--] seats to BNP and [--] to Jamaat Ekkator TV is giving [--] to BNP and [--] to Jamaat Not quite sure what accounts for the difference BBC is giving [--] seats to BNP and [--] to Jamaat Ekkator TV is giving [--] to BNP and [--] to Jamaat Not quite sure what accounts for the difference"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:59Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"Ekkator TV now saying: BNP [--] seats Jamaat [--] seats From @NetraNews https://t.co/wnZBxUkdhK From @NetraNews https://t.co/wnZBxUkdhK"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:52Z 84K followers, 16.7K engagements
"A solid turnout @NetraNews has this. It was a good turnout but 40% stayed at home. What does this tell us or mean for the legitimacy of the referendum result https://t.co/2RjNzdm1eA @NetraNews has this. It was a good turnout but 40% stayed at home. What does this tell us or mean for the legitimacy of the referendum result https://t.co/2RjNzdm1eA"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:17Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"What next for Dr Yunus Whilst it seems polls have suggested that Muhammad Yunus and the interim government remained popular throughout its [--] months in power at least amongst civil society in Dhaka and its social elite there was rarely a good word said about him. Before July/August [----] the country's elite civil society respected Yunus but did not necessarily warm to him. Now he has -- rightly or wrongly -- also lost a lot of that respect. In part that is the nature of governing as it forces leaders to make a lot of difficult decisions. Reform accountability and stability are objectives that"
X Link 2026-02-13T06:00Z 84K followers, 53.4K engagements
"BNP won the Bangladesh election - and they appear to have got a two thirds majority. But it will be very interesting to see what was the respective share of the vote between BNP v Jamaat"
X Link 2026-02-13T06:39Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"Tarique Rahman will be the first MALE prime minister in Bangladesh in [--] years. Not many countries can say that"
X Link 2026-02-13T10:04Z 84K followers, 251.3K engagements
"Dont know what to make of this but Jamaat claims that it is leading in [--] seats and BNP is leading in only [--] seats. This is divergent from what is being reported elsewhere. This is from Jamaat's FaceBook page. Ekkator TV BNP [--] seats Jamaat [--] seats Ekkator TV BNP [--] seats Jamaat [--] seats"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:11Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"Waiting for Tarique Rahman the new #Bangladesh prime minister in waiting to appear at large press conference in Dhaka"
X Link 2026-02-14T09:05Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"Read this article to help understand the power held by two YouTubers one living in the US and another in France on the politics of #Bangladesh - including how they at times incite or support political violence in the country. https://www.boomlive.in/amp/decode/pinaki-bhattacharya-elias-hossain-youtubers-orchestrated-mob-violence-bangladesh-america-france-30629 https://www.boomlive.in/amp/decode/pinaki-bhattacharya-elias-hossain-youtubers-orchestrated-mob-violence-bangladesh-america-france-30629"
X Link 2026-02-06T02:25Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements
"It is great to know that the Awami League in #bangladesh are now interested in vote rigging Police in Lakshmipur have uncovered a chilling glimpse into how elections can be manipulated: a printing press owner arrested with six illegally made election seals along with seized devices used to produce them. Ordered by unknown hands these tools raise serious questions https://t.co/l7TukUfSNx Police in Lakshmipur have uncovered a chilling glimpse into how elections can be manipulated: a printing press owner arrested with six illegally made election seals along with seized devices used to produce"
X Link 2026-02-06T02:53Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@BabarHoneyX Perhaps you should first find out why a person is in a photo with another person before making insinuations and inferences"
X Link 2026-02-06T06:12Z 83.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Whether at the elections the #Bangladesh Nationalist Party holds on or Jamaat-e-Islami manages to squeak through the scale of shift in support towards the islamist party has been dramatic over the last [--] months. Here are [--] reasons that explain why. My article for @dailystarnews https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/views/news/eight-reasons-explain-the-rise-jamaat-e-islami-4100626 https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/views/news/eight-reasons-explain-the-rise-jamaat-e-islami-4100626"
X Link 2026-02-08T05:10Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"Whether you are in favour of the July Charter proposals or not the wording in #Bangladesh's referendum question set out in four separate categories only clearly match with [--] of the [--] numbered proposals set out in the July charter. This lack of clarity could well be a source of legal and political contention after the election. My article in @CounterpointBD https://counterpointbd.com/which-charter-reforms https://counterpointbd.com/which-charter-reforms"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:10Z 83.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Who Will Win the Bangladesh elections taking place in two days time In an article I wrote in October [----] in the context of why the government should appoint international judges to the International Crimes Tribunal I observed: When it comes to fair elections a basic criterion is the presence of jeopardyreal uncertainty about who will win. Bangladesh is very much in that position now andassuming polling day proceeds smoothlyit will remain so until the votes are counted. That said there are three outcomes we can state with a reasonable degree of confidence. First the islamist Jamaat-e-Islami"
X Link 2026-02-10T07:10Z 83.9K followers, [----] engagements
"This is rather dangerous. The leader of #Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami "confidently predicting" that his party has won the election (taking place on [--] February) before a single vote has been given or counted creates a situation where if the vote goes against Jamaat (which is more likely than not) that he will say the election has been stolen from them. Who knows what poll the Jamaat is quoting below but the vast majority of polls put the BNP in the lead. Obama won with Yes We Can when every newspaper said a Black man could never become President of America. In Sri Lanka and Nepal"
X Link 2026-02-10T11:37Z 84K followers, 11.9K engagements
""Still for many voters the choice of parties on offer falls well short of the hopes that followed [--] August. On one side stands a centrist but largely unreformed Bangladesh Nationalist Party likely to thwart important governance reforms; on the other an Islamist party seen as less tainted by corruption yet carrying the inherent risks associated with placing a religiously fundamentalist movement in power." New piece on the forthcoming election for @ips_journal https://www.ips-journal.eu/topics/democracy-and-society/the-limits-of-a-fresh-start-8850/"
X Link 2026-02-11T04:43Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"#Bangladesh election. It looks like this may well not be the election that the interim government hoped for Claim and counter claim - as Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Jamaat-e-Islami battle for dominance on the eve of the vote. Difficult to assess the truth https://www.thedailystar.net/news/national-election-2026/news/tension-narayanganj-polling-centre-over-alleged-ballot-tampering-4103981 https://www.thedailystar.net/news/national-election-2026/news/tension-narayanganj-polling-centre-over-alleged-ballot-tampering-4103981"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:39Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"It may not be perfect but no political party has pulled out of the #Bangladesh election. A good sign"
X Link 2026-02-12T06:34Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"Very unfortunate. Party agents are crucial to a free and fair election. They are the key election monitors. If they are not allowed inside polling stations then one can assume there is some kind of dirty games going on https://www.thedailystar.net/news/national-election-2026/news/tasnim-jara-alleges-obstruction-polling-agents-4104351 https://www.thedailystar.net/news/national-election-2026/news/tasnim-jara-alleges-obstruction-polling-agents-4104351"
X Link 2026-02-12T06:36Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"Keep your eyes on voter turnout By noon typically a slower period 32.88% of voters had cast ballots in 77% of polling stations according to the EC. The Awami Leagues absence has not predictably led to widespread voter drop-off though its GopalganjFaridpurShariatpur strongholds will be exceptions. By noon typically a slower period 32.88% of voters had cast ballots in 77% of polling stations according to the EC. The Awami Leagues absence has not predictably led to widespread voter drop-off though its GopalganjFaridpurShariatpur strongholds will be exceptions"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:18Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"Someone has helpfully sent me the official voter turnouts in all the previous national elections in #bangladesh. A key indicator of the success or otherwise of the #Bangladesh election will be voter turnout. With the Awami League excluded from the ballot even if that exclusion is considered justified questions about the elections legitimacy are likely to arise. The absence of one of A key indicator of the success or otherwise of the #Bangladesh election will be voter turnout. With the Awami League excluded from the ballot even if that exclusion is considered justified questions about the"
X Link 2026-02-12T10:40Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"In order to ensure free and fair elections tomorrow in #Bangladesh it is important that minority communities where they feel at risk are given appropriate protection and support to help them vote when that is what they wish to do. It has been brought to my attention that at least a section of the Hindu community in Panchagarh1 have written to the Election Commission raising concerns about the law and order situation and asking for assistance so that they can vote. I do hope that in such situations like this (I am sure that this is not the only one) the Election Commission in tandem with those"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:27Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"Counting of votes has started in #BangladeshElections2026. This picture shows counting in Siddeshwari girl school in Dhaka- constituency [--]. Party agents all watching on the right (not shown in this picture.)"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:18Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"Useful summary of #Bangladesh election results so far by @NetraNews. Though early days"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:29Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"BBC is giving [--] seats to BNP and [--] to Jamaat Ekkator TV is giving [--] to BNP and [--] to Jamaat Not quite sure what accounts for the difference Useful summary of #Bangladesh election results so far by @NetraNews. Though early days. https://t.co/hqO1W4moDh Useful summary of #Bangladesh election results so far by @NetraNews. Though early days. https://t.co/hqO1W4moDh"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:39Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"From @NetraNews Dont know what to make of this but Jamaat claims that it is leading in [--] seats and BNP is leading in only [--] seats. This is divergent from what is being reported elsewhere. This is from Jamaat's FaceBook page. https://t.co/1AthhuNO0g Dont know what to make of this but Jamaat claims that it is leading in [--] seats and BNP is leading in only [--] seats. This is divergent from what is being reported elsewhere. This is from Jamaat's FaceBook page. https://t.co/1AthhuNO0g"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:46Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"Should add: BBC is still only formally announcing BNP - [--] seats Jamaat - [--] seats"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:13Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"A lot of sighs of relief in Bangladesh this morning"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:15Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"A lot wrong here. [--]. re point 2: There is no evidence as yet to suggest that it was "women voters" as such who prevented Jamaat-e-Islami from coming to power. There is evidence however that the Jamaat's defeat in many consituencies was down to a sufficient number of Awami League voters supporting the BNP. [--]. re point 3: This is so sloppy and conspiratorial. The claim that "the US-UK" gave "all-out backing" to the Jamaat is simply ridiculous. As is the idea that the Mohammad Yunus's "master" is Western governments and international NGOs. [--]. re 5th point: Bangladesh does not have a "secular"
X Link 2026-02-13T08:54Z 84K followers, 21.1K engagements
"Following yesterday's election in #Bangladesh in a number of parliamentary constituencies either the margins of victory are small or there is a candidate who feel there has been a problem with the counting of votes. The Election Commission should be liberal in allowing recounts where there are legitimate concerns so that any questions can be laid to rest. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022249374710169934 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022249374710169934"
X Link 2026-02-13T09:59Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"At today's press conference Tarique Rahman Bangladesh's prime minister-in-waiting was asked this question by a journalist: "Many people in Bangladesh remain supporters of the Awami League. What kind or types of reconciliation should there be for them in Bangladesh." He answered: "By ensuring rule of law". It was a short response but potentially a significant one - as if the new BNP government follows through with that mindset many of the problems in the last [--] months that have beset those Awami League activists or supporters - who were not complicit in July/August [----] violence but have"
X Link 2026-02-14T13:23Z 84K followers, 13.1K engagements
"Excellent debunking of disinformation on the [----] Bangladesh election. Dismislab collected at least a dozen social media posts and comments whose core message was that without manipulation or conspiracy Jamaat alliance candidates would have won many more seats. But what do the statistics say Read here: https://t.co/qT0d4MuEo2 #Bangladesh https://t.co/7FbxFvo9Sz Dismislab collected at least a dozen social media posts and comments whose core message was that without manipulation or conspiracy Jamaat alliance candidates would have won many more seats. But what do the statistics say Read here:"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:58Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"One year on from the July/August [----] protest killings in #Bangladesh my reckoning on the current status of the process of accountability for those responsible (written before the start of the Sheikh Hasina trial) @ProthomAlo https://en.prothomalo.com/opinion/op-ed/i5n2f2rb8g https://en.prothomalo.com/opinion/op-ed/i5n2f2rb8g"
X Link 2025-08-05T09:08Z 84.4K followers, [---] engagements
"These are my initial comments on the "July Declaration" read out today by the leader of #Bangladesh's interim government Muhammad Yunus. [--]. Much of the history - as well as description of the Awami League - set out in this declaration is highly biased and partial and seems to just represent the views of those who hate the Awami League not just for what the party has done whilst in government but for what the party is to them that is to say a political adversary. That is to say much of it reads like a political tract written by long standing adversaries and critics of the Awami League. [--]. As a"
X Link 2025-08-05T14:58Z 84.4K followers, 16.8K engagements
"What a holiday this must have been https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/politics/news/ncp-serves-show-cause-notices-five-leaders-over-coxs-bazar-trip-aug-5-3956811 https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/politics/news/ncp-serves-show-cause-notices-five-leaders-over-coxs-bazar-trip-aug-5-3956811"
X Link 2025-08-06T11:24Z 84.4K followers, [----] engagements
"If you have not already seen @ProthomAlo's new film on Jatrabari on [--] August [----] you really should. Earlier in the year ITJP/TGI launched a [--] minute film that centred on the police station in one particular hour of the day just as Sheikh Hasina the prime minister of #Bangladesh fled to India. This new film expands extensively on this and analyses video throughout the day from many different sources and investigates the dozens of deaths. It is an impressive piece of journalism and film making. It is in Bengali but has English sub-titles https://www.prothomalo.com/video/bangladesh/0uitescup6"
X Link 2025-08-07T11:18Z 84.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Bangladesh's Anti Corruption Commission has yet to disclose the evidence against Tulip Siddiq MP whose trial for allegedly influencing her Aunt the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to give her mother and siblings land in a new development scheme starts tomorrow. However whilst the former prime minister herself and other members of her family may have been involved in some underhand dealings in this transaction it seems difficult to imagine that Tulip would have done what is alleged against her. This is a story about the illegal allocation in [----] by Hasina of plots of land to members of"
X Link 2025-08-10T13:17Z 84.4K followers, 10.2K engagements
"Shomi Kaiser former actress and now business woman as well as once strong supporter of the Awami League was arrested in November [----] for the attempted murder of a young person shot on [--] July in Uttara during the July/August protests. She was refused bail in the lower courts. In December [----] the High Court granted her "interim" bail. However instead of being released the Attorney General's office obtained a stay from the Appellate Division stopping the High Court bail order. When the bail application came up three months later for a full hearing in the High Court in March [----] the Court"
X Link 2025-08-12T06:39Z 84.4K followers, [----] engagements
"This is an interesting development at Bangladesh's International Criminal Court. Junior lawyers representing senior advocate ZI Khan Panna approached the Tribunal today and requested that he be appointed as a "state appointed" lawyer for the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina. Apparently he has made requests to the ICT Registrar earlier but had received no response. The former prime minister already has a state appointed lawyer Amir Hossain who is also representing the former Home Minister. Panna it should be said is also a more senior lawyer with an extensive chambers of junior lawyers. The"
X Link 2025-08-12T08:13Z 84.4K followers, [----] engagements
"A year on from the July/August [----] protests Bangladesh authorities should take the appropriate steps to immediately release anyone currently detained in a murder or attempted murder case relating to killings or injuries in July/August unless the police have at least one of these pieces of evidence: (a) a picture or video of that person present at the location of the shooting; or (b) mobile phone records that locate that person present at the scene of the shooting; or (c) emails or text messages that show that person is in some way connected to that shooting; or (d) audio recordings or phone"
X Link 2025-08-14T05:33Z 84.4K followers, [----] engagements
"I agree. This includes such a distorted and politicised view of #bangladesh history where all evils of the country are the responsibility of Mujib and the Awami League. This is simply the diametrically opposite view of the Awami League and is as anti-intellectual as so much of the Awami leagues version of history was and is. . But on the other hand I suppose it is good that we now know exactly what the NCP thinks and I suppose stands for. This is a politicized mis-reading of history. What Hasina did was not pre-determined by her father. They both made their own hideous mistakes. This attempt"
X Link 2025-08-16T08:04Z 84.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Sheikh Mujib took over a country that had been in a nine months war where hundreds of thousands of civilians had been killed where millions had become refugees. We rightly credit the Yunus government for assisting with the stability of Bangladesh after [--] August [----] where just under a thousand had been killed in [--] weeks but can you imagine how tough it was for the Mujib government to stabilise Bangladesh immediately after this [--] month war with a completely broken economy and polity. Nonetheless there is no doubt much to criticise about Mujib's government. The Rakhi Bahini the decision to set"
X Link 2025-08-16T13:50Z 84.4K followers, [----] engagements
"From bad to worse. A victim of a mob a rickshaw driver gets arrested by the #bangladesh police on a July [----] attempted murder case filed months ago where his name had not been originally listed. A police officer tells the court that new eyewitness evidence links the rickshaw driver to the murder. If anyone should be prosecuted it should be the police officer for very obviously lying to the court and the magistrate for going along with it. When it comes to the criminal justice system - the police the prosecutors the magistrates etc - it is acting in just as repressive a manner as it did in"
X Link 2025-08-16T18:48Z 84.4K followers, [----] engagements
"I have just read an unofficial English version of the current [--] page July Charter which has been sent around to #Bangladesh political parties. It is supposed to represent a consensus amongst political parties. My thoughts: [--]. This is a dense document and it will take time to digest but at first glance most of the proposals appear to be common-sense progressive reforms seeking more independent state institutions and a reduction of power in the hands of the prime minister. It includes the kind of reforms that I think most people interested in constitutional reform would agree with; [--]. I notice"
X Link 2025-08-17T05:25Z 84.3K followers, [----] engagements
"It is good that it is now being reported that the magistrate gave bail the following day and that the police officer is being asked to account for himself . However two things come out of this. First is the control the #Bangladesh government has over magistrates. If it wants someone to get bail or indeed not get bail the Bangladesh government can ensure that happens (no different of course from the past). Secondly whilst at some level the police officer should account for himself on a day to day basis police officers routinly lie and deceive the courts as part of getting magistrates to refuse"
X Link 2025-08-18T06:26Z 84.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Extraordinary if found to be true "According to a recent progress report compiled with intelligence from at least nine foreign financial watchdogs the #Bangladesh S. Alam Group is accused of siphoning off nearly [------] crore takaabout $20 billionthrough a network of at least [---] shell companies registered across nine countries." @ZulkarnainSaer https://en.banglaoutlook.org/investigation/235715 https://en.banglaoutlook.org/investigation/235715"
X Link 2025-08-20T13:04Z 84.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Here is the May [----] article published in #Bangladesh's The New Age that broke the story that Sukhranjan Bali a defence witness in the war crimes trial of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee was being detained in an Indian Jail. In November [----] n the day he was due to give evidence Bali was picked up and disappeared from outside the International Crimes Tribunal. Bali is now back in the news as he gave a press conference today outside the ICT"
X Link 2025-08-21T10:34Z 84.4K followers, [----] engagements
"For those interested in the abduction of the defence witness Sukhranjan Bali in November [----] from outside the #Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal read my articles and investigation from the time. https://bangladeshwarcrimes.blogspot.com/2012/11/abduction-of-defense-witness-outside.html Here is the May [----] article published in #Bangladesh's The New Age that broke the story that Sukhranjan Bali a defence witness in the war crimes trial of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee was being detained in an Indian Jail. In November [----] n the day he was due https://t.co/Qcheios25B"
X Link 2025-08-21T10:56Z 84.4K followers, [---] engagements
"An appropriately blistering critique from the @nytimes on the FBI investigation into John Bolton . Reading this though one wonders if Trump is taking a lesson from the Yunus government in #bangladesh (or the previous Awami Leage government) whose criminal justice system is also targeting former political adversaries. In Bangladesh however they imprison them without investigation or evidence. Including a former Chief Justice https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/opinion/trump-john-bolton-raid.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/opinion/trump-john-bolton-raid.html"
X Link 2025-08-23T10:10Z 84.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Much more attention needs to be given to the poor evidential basis by which Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal has arrested some of the [---] people currently detained for alleged Crimes against Humanity relating to the July/August killings. Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury the Energy Adviser to Bangladesh's former prime minister Sheikh Hasina has been detained for ten months but the "Allegation" on which he was detained was factually flawed and there is no basis to continue to hold him in detention. My piece for @ProthomAlo https://en.prothomalo.com/opinion/op-ed/gy8h4xqbj5"
X Link 2025-08-28T09:11Z 84.4K followers, [----] engagements
"#Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal really must revise its Rules of Procedure to prevent the kind of arbitrary arrests and continuing detentions that are happening to at least some of those detained under it with the [--] month detention of former Hasina Energy Adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi an illustrative example. The rules - which allows detention without any evidential threshold - are the same rules as those that existed when the Awami League government was in power when they prosecuted Jamaat-e-Islami and other leaders. Then the ICT defence lawyers criticised the procedural rules relating"
X Link 2025-08-28T15:04Z 84.4K followers, [---] engagements
"It is unclear who within the Bangladesh government/ police decided that the best way to handle the disruption of the "Mancha 1971" meeting was by arresting its organisers/ participants including the former Awami League politician Latif Siddique. But whoever the decision makers were they certainly were not acting in the best interest of either the government or the country. Whether you agree or disagree with what was said or was likely to be said at the meeting - and no doubt some of it would have been judged as provocative to the ears of some people and some political parties - it is clear"
X Link 2025-08-29T09:16Z 84.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Yesterday at the launch of a report by Shopran a new human rights group the government's press secretary @CApress_sec Shafiqul Alam disparaged human rights reporting done by local Bangladesh groups and the country's media and called for the involvement of international human rights groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. Well today @hrw has itself issued a press release condemning the Bangladesh government's use of Anti-Terrorism legislation against critics. What does Shafiqul Alam now have to say The interim government should not be engaging in the same partisan behaviour"
X Link 2025-10-09T05:49Z 84.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Why is there not more concern in #Bangladesh about how the current Yunus government has given two television licences to two students/leaders - a perfect example of old fashion "Awami League-style" corruption/cronyism. This is exactly how Mozammel Babu was given a license for Ekushey TV - and we know how that turned out. Who is currently in charge of the ministry that gave the licenses Oh yes. None other than Mahfuj Alam another student leader. What a surprise https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/ul0pqkdoj2 https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/ul0pqkdoj2"
X Link 2025-10-09T12:38Z 84.1K followers, 24.1K engagements
"For readers of the runes of #Bangladesh's current political party preferences (post the ousting of Sheikh Hasina in August 2024) the economist Jyoti Rahman has written a useful blog looking at all four of the major opinion polls in the country. Many in Bangladesh are very sniffy about polls but what Jyoti shows is the general confluence of their findings suggesting the polls should be treated with some respect. They show that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party is consistently ahead of Jamaat-e-Islami but only by a few percentage points; Awami League still retains solid support (at around half"
X Link 2025-10-13T04:43Z 84.1K followers, [---] engagements
"In the despair hope and miracles here is a story of true extraordinary heroism in #Bangladesh's building collapse http://t.co/H4LpQzQLTP http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bangladesh/10021023/45-a-month-hero-amputated-girls-hand-to-save-her-from-factory-carnage.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bangladesh/10021023/45-a-month-hero-amputated-girls-hand-to-save-her-from-factory-carnage.html"
X Link 2013-04-26T18:57Z 79.2K followers, [--] engagements
"In the despair hope and miracles here is a story of extraordinary heroism in #Bangladesh's building collapse http://t.co/H4LpQzQLTP http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bangladesh/10021023/45-a-month-hero-amputated-girls-hand-to-save-her-from-factory-carnage.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bangladesh/10021023/45-a-month-hero-amputated-girls-hand-to-save-her-from-factory-carnage.html"
X Link 2013-04-27T02:12Z 79.2K followers, [--] engagements
"#bangladesh president of Institute of Architects: Change of occupancy is a v dangerous thing re New Age disclosure http://t.co/yQYZIJb717 http://www.newagebd.com/detail.phpdate=2013-05-04&nid=48071 http://www.newagebd.com/detail.phpdate=2013-05-04&nid=48071"
X Link 2013-05-04T01:37Z 82.7K followers, [--] engagements
"Takeaways from last saturday's leaked telephone conversation between #bangladesh prime minister and opposition leader http://t.co/ax5uf3OAln http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2013/10/seven-take-aways-from-leaked-phone-call.html http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2013/10/seven-take-aways-from-leaked-phone-call.html"
X Link 2013-10-31T08:58Z 79.2K followers, [--] engagements
"And the audio recording of #bangladesh prime minister's press conference to the international media is now here http://t.co/6k4DBAUpif http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2014/01/hasinas-press-conference-to.html http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2014/01/hasinas-press-conference-to.html"
X Link 2014-01-10T12:34Z 79.2K followers, [--] engagements
"The #bangladesh prime minister's son's hyperbolic attack on the country's most popular newspaper http://t.co/OnDrMqaZZO http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2014/05/sajeebs-attack-on-prothom-alo.html http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2014/05/sajeebs-attack-on-prothom-alo.html"
X Link 2014-05-26T07:49Z 79.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Credible reports that international award winning photographer Shahidul Alam has been picked up from his home in Dhaka by over [--] law enforcement officers after giving live interview to Al Jazeera about current student protests"
X Link 2018-08-05T17:00Z 84.1K followers, [---] engagements
"This is what a Bangladesh minister said "Coronovirus will not be able to do anything to us as long as Sheikh Hasina is here" https://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/news/coronavirus-what-ministers-leaders-said-1883698 https://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/news/coronavirus-what-ministers-leaders-said-1883698"
X Link 2020-03-21T09:22Z 83.6K followers, [----] engagements
"#Bangladesh calling. Sound familiar "Leaders are most likely to try and stay in power when they believe that their presence is essential to maintain political stability; in cases when they are less committed to plural politics; when they have engaged in high-level corruption and/or human rights abuses; when they lack trust in rival leaders and political institutions; when they have been in power for a longer period of time; and when they control geostrategically important states with natural resources effective security forces weak institutions and high levels of distrust." @dailystarnews"
X Link 2023-12-12T00:44Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements
""India will back Sheikh Hasina from the top. My interview with Avinash Paliwal (@PaliwalAvi) one of the most informed academics writing on Bangladesh-India relations. https://netra.news/2024/india-will-back-sheikh-hasina-from-the-top/ https://netra.news/2024/india-will-back-sheikh-hasina-from-the-top/"
X Link 2024-01-07T21:41Z 83.8K followers, 16.6K engagements
"Said yesterday. Sadly happened today"
X Link 2024-08-04T11:21Z 83.8K followers, 64.7K engagements
"Over [--] people killed so far today in #Bangladesh. Many protestors from police shootings but also deaths of some Awami League supporters. And now the government has again brought in indefinite curfew. This new violence helps the Awami League seek to stay in power"
X Link 2024-08-04T11:22Z 83.8K followers, 16.3K engagements
"The @thetimes followed up on the @MailOnline report on Tulip Siddiq MP. The new information is that: - Labour sources said that she was paying rent on the new house at a rate "consistent with market levels"; - a treasury spokesman said Siddiq had disclosed her property arrangements to the department and they were "being considered" as part of the usual decleration of interest process." It is odd that the the labour party and the Treasury chose not say any of this when asked to respond to questions put by @MailOnline before the Sunday article was published on Sunday. Nor do these responses"
X Link 2024-08-12T11:31Z 84K followers, 22.3K engagements
"There are I understand many young people in Bangladesh along with the supposedly wiser heads who instigated it feeling good about the destruction of Sheikh Mujib's house in Road no [--]. They feel they have landed a blow on the Awami League and Sheikh Hasina sending her and the party a strong message in response to her denialism and provocations. No unfortunately they have allowed their emotions get the better of them and instead have done exactly the opposite and instead provided Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League a great strategic victory. Days before Trump meets Modi they have allowed Modi"
X Link 2025-02-06T19:47Z 83.7K followers, 20.8K engagements
"If true this would be another extremely bad decision by the Interim government. I do hope Asif Mahmud is speaking out of turn. If he wants the Awami League to be defeated do so at the ballot box. https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/govt-take-steps-soon-ban-awami-league-adviser-asif-3818486 https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/govt-take-steps-soon-ban-awami-league-adviser-asif-3818486"
X Link 2025-02-07T14:51Z 83.4K followers, 53.4K engagements
"Pleased to see this statement issued just now. ----------------- DHAKA February 10: The Chief Adviser strongly condemns the mob attack on a bookstall at Ekushey Book Fair. The attack shows contempt for both the rights of Bangladeshi citizens and for the laws of our country. Such violence betrays the open-minded spirit of this great Bangladeshi cultural fixture which commemorates the language martyrs who lost their lives on [--] February [----] in defence of their mother tongue. Today the Ekushey Boimela is a daily meeting place for our writers and readers. The Interim Government has ordered"
X Link 2025-02-10T18:26Z 83.4K followers, [----] engagements
"This is very important to Bangladesh. The UN Human Rights Office is holding a news conference in Geneva later today at 2.30pm Bangladesh time (8.30 am UK time; [----] am Geneva time) to launch the OHCHR Fact-Finding Report: Human Rights Violations and Abuses related to the Protests of July and August [----] in Bangladesh The news conference will be broadcast live on UN Web TV https://webtv.un.org/en https://webtv.un.org/en"
X Link 2025-02-12T04:41Z 83.5K followers, [----] engagements
"I must say reading through the UN Bangladesh report not only is it a detailed indictment of senior echelons of the Awami League government itself it also presents a devastating picture of the Awami League as a party many of whose student and youth activists collaborated with the police in the violent suppression of the protests"
X Link 2025-02-12T11:26Z 83.5K followers, [----] engagements
"UN Fact Finding Report on Bangladesh This is a thread setting out the key findings of the UN Human Rights Fact Finding Report on human rights violations in #Bangladesh between [--] July to [--] August [----]. (This particular thread does not include the report's findings on recriminatory violence and root causes) @ohchr"
X Link 2025-02-13T01:17Z 83.6K followers, 23.7K engagements
"10. Killing of Abu Sayed One of the first killings that took place was that of the student Abu Sayed on [--] July and video of the police shooting at him went viral on social media. Awami League/supporters have questioned whether the police were actually responsible for his death and so it is notable that the UN report discusses his death in some detail (see Case [--] page 18). The report concludes that: "Based on reliable and consistent victim and witness accounts and videos OHCHR has reasonable grounds to believe direct police involvement in and responsibility for his killing. Police in"
X Link 2025-02-13T01:17Z 83.4K followers, [---] engagements
"11. Systematic indiscriminate use of shotguns loaded with lethal ammunition The UN report also looks at the wider use of shotguns by law enforcement officials. (p.22) "Abu Sayeds extrajudicial killing by shotguns is emblematic of a larger trend of Bangladesh Police systematically firing short-barrelled stockless shotguns loaded with lethal metal pellets at protesters from the early stages of the protests until their very end. The use of shotguns loaded metal pellets in public order management is not in line with international human rights law. The wide radius of the spreading metal shot makes"
X Link 2025-02-13T01:17Z 83.4K followers, [---] engagements
"13: Extra-Judicial killings and orders to kill The report describes many examples of extra-judicial injuries and killings. - on [--] July in Uttara: "The situation escalated in the early afternoon. Witnesses described police and RAB firing lethal ammunition from military rifles from different locations at protesters. Witnesses and images also confirm the police shooting from the rooftop of Uttara Police Station. Hundreds of protesters suffered gunshot wounds and several were shot dead. One nearby hospital recorded [--] injured patients and six deaths on that day out of which five were students."
X Link 2025-02-13T01:17Z 83.4K followers, [---] engagements
"14. Involvement of army in killings The UN report were able to document "three instances in which Bangladesh Army deliberately shot military rifles loaded with lethal ammunition at protesters". In only one of those incidents on [--] August is there evidence that someone had been killed. At about [--] am hundreds of protesters had gathered in front of Jamuna Future Park near Bushandara Residential Area. The report states: "According to witnesses Army units were already positioned there. Approximately twenty army soldiers assembled in a line reportedly positioned 30-40 meters away from the"
X Link 2025-02-13T01:17Z 83.4K followers, [---] engagements
"An Indian journalist at the Trump-Modi press conference tried to get Trump to answer a question on a disinformation-conspiracy theory claiming that the US deep state was involved in the overthrow of the Hasina government. Trump just said "There was no role for our deep-state" before adding something that made no sense " . this is something that the prime minister has been working on a long time and has been working on for hundreds of years frankly" and then ended by saying "but I will leave Bangladesh to the prime minister" and then then turned to Modi."
X Link 2025-02-14T15:36Z 83.6K followers, 22.8K engagements
"White is black. Black is white Kind of tragic. Opne would imagine that Awami League and Indian supporters can do better than this surely 🎯 Muhammad Yunus is maintaing a band of Goebbels. While his DPS claimed Yunus spoke to Elon Musk on phone office of Yunus says he "held an extensive video discussion" with Musk to "explore future collaboration". Both are blatant lies. Instead reality is President Trump is https://t.co/w6ruJwwfEI 🎯 Muhammad Yunus is maintaing a band of Goebbels. While his DPS claimed Yunus spoke to Elon Musk on phone office of Yunus says he "held an extensive video"
X Link 2025-02-14T18:27Z 83.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Just extraordinary levels of disinformation coming from Trump about Ukraine as he bends towards Russia as the USs new ally. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/19/factchecking-donald-trump-claims-war-ukraineCMP=share_btn_url https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/19/factchecking-donald-trump-claims-war-ukraineCMP=share_btn_url"
X Link 2025-02-19T13:42Z 83.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Bangladesh's new interim government has started the process of seeking accountability of politicians and security force officials accused of crimes against humanity/murders during mass protests of summer [----] - but politicisation is already marring the process. Six months on my summary on where #Bangladesh stands in seeking accountability for the hundreds of unarmed protestors (and others) killed in July/August [----]. https://t.co/0Rf94BtNpv Six months on my summary on where #Bangladesh stands in seeking accountability for the hundreds of unarmed protestors (and others) killed in July/August"
X Link 2025-02-23T15:30Z 83.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Important to note this. In [----] the US Biden administration sanctioned #Bangladesh's Rapid Action Battalion and its senior officers for its involvement in extra judicial killings over the country's "war on drugs". Now in its own "war on drugs" the US Trump administration is extra judicial killing people by bombing boats in the Caribbean"
X Link 2025-10-23T07:00Z 84.1K followers, [----] engagements
"This is just so embarrassing. So it is not just that there is no change in #Bangladesh (between the former Awami League and the new interim government) in the politicisation of the law enforcement and judicial system but also it seems no change in the profligate use of state assets for the personal comfort of the country's leadership. I always understood that Yunus lived a modest life; however clearly when the Bangladesh government is paying for it not quite so modest So unnecessary. ( ) https://t.co/tLuvjGVNeP ( ) https://t.co/tLuvjGVNeP"
X Link 2025-10-27T04:34Z 84K followers, 29.7K engagements
""The killings and arbitrary detentions of Awami League activists are deeply troubling but they fall well short of meeting the legal threshold for crimes against humanity. . Yet this conclusion should offer no solace. Some of the abuses described in the Doughty Street communication still amount to serious human rights violations and the interim government has done far too little to prevent or redress them." My take for @ProthomAlo on Awami League's "Crimes against Humanity" application to the International Criminal Court made by UK's Doughty Street chambers."
X Link 2025-11-02T12:30Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"This is a revealing statement from Bangladesh's Chief Justice made just a few days ago. He expresses concern when bail is granted but not when bail is routinely denied by the courts. In the fifteen months since assuming office he has taken no meaningful steps to ensure that the judiciary exercises independent oversight over the detention of hundreds likely thousands of individuals languishing in prison on un-investigated murder charges with no evidence to support the allegations against them. Instead the courts particularly magistrates and district judges continue to act at the direction of"
X Link 2025-11-03T13:33Z 83.9K followers, [----] engagements
"One of the notable achievements of Bangladesh's current interim government Bangladesh has been its attempt to end enforced disappearances a repressive tactic that became widespread during the Awami Leagues rule. The fear of being subjected to a "goom" - rather than just "arbitrary detained" - had grown pervasive among critics and opposition politicians alike. At first glance therefore the government deserves credit for approving a law that explicitly criminalises enforced disappearances - though the details of this legislation remain opaque for now. What is known though is deeply troubling:"
X Link 2025-11-07T05:24Z 84K followers, [----] engagements
"My article for @ProthomAlo on how local Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders in Savar are accused of weaponising a [--] August murder case to seize a business. "Successive governments have failed to empower independent and non-partisan actors within the justice system to challenge politically motivated detentions. Instead a nexus of political and commercial elites in power or aligned with the government have dominated law enforcement and prosecution. The aftermath of the JulyAugust killings has shown how this pattern persists. What should have been a moment of change has instead become a new"
X Link 2025-11-08T07:28Z 84K followers, [---] engagements
"There have in recent day been a series of crude bomb attacks at various locations across Dhaka in #Bangladesh outside a Christian church the Grameen Bank headquarters the NGO Prabartana and most recently the firebombing of two buses in the early hours of Monday. So far no casualties have been reported. While it would be premature to draw firm conclusions it seems reasonable to suspect that elements within the Awami League may be involved. Grameen Bank is of course associated with Dr. Muhammad Yunus head of the interim government while Prabartana is owned by Farida Akhter Adviser to the"
X Link 2025-11-10T10:17Z 83.9K followers, [----] engagements
"BREAKING: Judgement in trial concerning alleged crimes against humanity by the former #Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and former IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun will be on [--] November Monday the Bangladesh International Crimes tribunal announces"
X Link 2025-11-13T06:17Z 83.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Those interested in the trial of #bangladesh's former PM Sheikh Hasina and the overall justice process relating to the hundreds killed by Bangladesh law enforcement authorities in July [----] a new website has been launched. https://bangladesh2024justicewatch.org/https://bangladesh2024justicewatch.org/ https://bangladesh2024justicewatch.org/https://bangladesh2024justicewatch.org/"
X Link 2025-11-16T20:13Z 83.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Outside International Crimes Tribunal in #bangladesh as judgment in Sheikh Hasina trial will start to be read out within the hour"
X Link 2025-11-17T04:32Z 83.9K followers, [----] engagements
"BREAKING: Bangladesh Tribunal imposes death sentence to Sheikh Hasina former prime minister and Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal former home minister for crimes against humanity in the killings of protesters in July/August 2024"
X Link 2025-11-17T09:05Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements
"In the #bangladesh trial of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina sufficient evidence was available for a conviction but significant due process issues remain about the fairness of the proceedings in particular the inadequate defence that was provided to her and the former home minister in the in absentia trial. https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/evidence-strong-defence-did-bare-minimum-4037436 https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/evidence-strong-defence-did-bare-minimum-4037436"
X Link 2025-11-18T04:27Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Exactly. For those unclear what the irony is - Sheikh Hasina organised as prime minister far more unfair trials at the International Crimes Tribunal than the one she has just now been judged in and after the previous trials the accused were in fact executed. Irony has been sentenced to death. Irony has been sentenced to death"
X Link 2025-11-18T06:50Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements
""There are two particularly serious problems with the Sheikh Hasina trial" in #Bangladesh. My new article for @ProthomAlo on the in absentia trial of the former prime minister that resulted in her death penalty https://en.prothomalo.com/opinion/op-ed/narqdl3k4g https://en.prothomalo.com/opinion/op-ed/narqdl3k4g"
X Link 2025-11-20T03:47Z 83.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The senior UK lawyers who have written to the #Bangladesh government about the ongoing trial proceedings against Tulip Siddiq MP for alleged corruption are absolutely right that the standards of the trial which she is facing falls well below international standards. But the letter to the government as quoted in the Guardian newspaper suggests the lawyers have been misled by Siddiq. [--]. No lawyer allowed As Tulip Siddiq chose not to surrender herself to the court to face trial she is treated in Bangladesh law as a "fugitive". And under Bangladesh law as a "fugitive" for this kind of case (where"
X Link 2025-11-26T06:15Z 83.6K followers, 23.1K engagements
"If the #Bangladesh Chief Adviser can order the arrest of those who attacked the bauls I wonder why he cannot order the release of those arbitrarily detained for months on transparently false allegations of murder. https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/chief-adviser-has-ordered-arrests-over-attacks-bauls-shafiqul-4044956 https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/chief-adviser-has-ordered-arrests-over-attacks-bauls-shafiqul-4044956"
X Link 2025-11-27T16:30Z 83.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Sheikh Hasina family corruption trials: The need to end Bangladeshs Kangaroo court proceedings. https://bangladesh2024justicewatch.org/the-need-to-end-bangladeshs-kangaroo-court-proceedings/ https://bangladesh2024justicewatch.org/the-need-to-end-bangladeshs-kangaroo-court-proceedings/"
X Link 2025-12-01T08:15Z 83.6K followers, [----] engagements
"On this I agree with Tulip Siddiq MP as quoted in @guardian: "This whole process has been flawed and farcical from the beginning to the end. The outcome of this kangaroo court is as predictable as it is unjustified. I hope this so-called verdict will be treated with the contempt it deserves." Bangladesh you can and should be doing so much better Sheikh Hasina family corruption trials: The need to end Bangladeshs Kangaroo court proceedings. https://t.co/MRPizD7Ecq https://t.co/R6W8o36uru Sheikh Hasina family corruption trials: The need to end Bangladeshs Kangaroo court proceedings."
X Link 2025-12-01T08:19Z 83.6K followers, [----] engagements
"What did the #Bangladesh judge say in sentencing Tulip Siddiq MP for [--] years imprisonment This case is all about the allotment of land plots by RAJUK (Capital Development Authority) to Sheikh Hasina (the former prime minister of Bangladesh) and her two children and to Sheikh Rehana (Hasina's sister) and two of her three children. Tulip Siddiq the third child did not receive a plot. The prosecution case is that Hasina had concealed information that she and her family members already had other plots/houses in the RAJUK area of Dhaka city which according to the rules should have meant that they"
X Link 2025-12-01T10:21Z 83.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The International Republican Institute's new [----] #bangladesh poll v its [----] poll. Discuss"
X Link 2025-12-02T03:55Z 83.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Some bad and good news for the Awami League in the International Republican Institute (IR) poll Bad news (for AL) is that an overwhelming percentage (70%) of people say they supported the protests that led to the removal of the Awami League. This finding cuts across their public relations attempts to argue that the vast majority of people still support the Awami League. And about the same percentage (69%) support the decision to suspend the registration of the Awami League. No love for the Awami League amongst the majorotty I would suggest that most of the 70% and 69% ( are the same people"
X Link 2025-12-02T04:42Z 83.6K followers, [---] engagements
"A crucial question for the forthcoming #Bangladesh election is the percentage of people who will vote. In [----] and [----] with the opposition parties boycotting the polls the official level of polling was around 40% (with many arguing that the real number was much less.) With the Awami League now not allowed to participate in the election and the former governing party possibly instructing its supporters not to vote one could forsee a situation where the level of votes could also remain low. However - putting to one side the wisdom or otherwise of not allowing the AL to take part in the"
X Link 2025-12-02T05:12Z 83.6K followers, [---] engagements
"And as to voting intention. Well it remains a close run thing. BNP at 33% and JI at 29%. Although the view of most commentators is that the BNP will win a majority the Jamaat-e-Islami remains a close second in the polls. It all depends on how the vote of these two parties is distributed around the country. What is newly significant about this poll is that the number of "don't knows" and "refused to say" is much lower than in previous post August [----] polls. It seems more people have made up their mind and there is less uncertainty"
X Link 2025-12-02T05:23Z 83.6K followers, [---] engagements
"More crazy stuff by the #Bangladesh government. Journalist arrested under anti-terrorism act in a case that also names an actress and a model Quite rightly the govt talks about disinformation by the Awami League etc but it allows its own criminal justice system to be an even greater centre of disinformation. Barely a scintilla of truth in so many criminal cases and detentions. And these kinds of absurd arrests are completely the wrong response to the tragic assassination attempt on Sharif Osman Hadi. https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/hdvi3ks8v7"
X Link 2025-12-15T17:38Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Here we go The current @Yunus_Centre Bangladesh government and its most ardent supporters seems blind to how they are replicating some of the worst of the repressive tactics previously used by the Awami League themselves against the Jamaat and BNP. Not so much Bangladesh [---] but minus [---] https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/nation/398982/arrest-awami-league-criminals-on-sight-no-need https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/nation/398982/arrest-awami-league-criminals-on-sight-no-need"
X Link 2025-12-18T10:53Z 83.8K followers, 24.6K engagements
"Very unsettling in #bangladesh as two of the countrys most independent newspapers @thedailystar and @ProthomAlo come under attack by mobs following the announcement of the death of the Inqilab Mancha Spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi after he was shot in the head. Where are the police/government https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/angry-group-protesters-vandalises-prothom-alo-building-daily-star-office-karwan-bazar https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/angry-group-protesters-vandalises-prothom-alo-building-daily-star-office-karwan-bazar"
X Link 2025-12-18T19:00Z 83.8K followers, 68.6K engagements
"One question on everyones lips is why did the #Bangladesh government and the countys security forces not respond more quickly to the mob violence against the newspapers and the Chhayanaut cultural institution last night It is all very well for the government to condemn it today (and they do seem to be saying the right things now) but the public needs to know that this kind of thing wont happen again and the security forces are ready to stop it"
X Link 2025-12-19T09:10Z 83.8K followers, 20.5K engagements
"There is some jeopardy in #bangladesh tomorrow Saturday with the burial of the student leader Hadi Whilst many politicians have indeed called for calm the event with thousands present in the capital city does nonetheless present an opportunity for other political actors not linked to mainstream parties to exploit. Lets hope for the best"
X Link 2025-12-20T00:07Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements
"There are so many threads going on right now in #Bangladesh that it is difficult for any journalist to bring it altogether in a single article. Here is @Sabir59's attempt for (one of the best online sites publishing on South Asia) https://thewire.in/south-asia/hadis-assassination-casts-a-shadow-over-bangladeshs-long-awaited-elections http://TheWire.in https://thewire.in/south-asia/hadis-assassination-casts-a-shadow-over-bangladeshs-long-awaited-elections http://TheWire.in"
X Link 2025-12-21T10:56Z 83.8K followers, 18K engagements
"This is damning of the #Bangladesh government in relation to its inaction in dealing with the mobs as they attacked newspapers cultural institutions on Thursday night. . Perhaps the govt has a good response but as far as I know we have not yet heard it. https://www.tbsnews.net/features/panorama/government-failure-and-police-silence-who-will-stop-mob-1314766 https://www.tbsnews.net/features/panorama/government-failure-and-police-silence-who-will-stop-mob-1314766"
X Link 2025-12-21T11:01Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements
"There is strong vocal group in #Bangladesh from the right and particularly the Islamic right who think that unless you hate or hated the people they hate or hated (meaning right now India the Awami League etc) as much as they themselves hate or hated them you are their enemies and you are friends and agents of those they hate. It is this extreme and uninformed mindset that is not only the enemy of a free press but is helping to prevent anything remotely like due process to develop within the countrys criminal justice system"
X Link 2025-12-21T18:20Z 83.8K followers, 29.3K engagements
"Hi @JonFDanilowicz. I would be surprised if that is really a legitimate fear in addition there is no chance of Hasina coming back to Bangladesh for a long time. What we are talking about here is extreme political/religious illiberalism which if allowed to dominate would prevent the functioning of independent institutions crucial to the operation of some kind of liberal democratic state which the July charter and other reforms are supposedly intended to help develop. The concern is that the interim government has given significant legitimacy to these positions and indeed much of its law"
X Link 2025-12-21T23:27Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Just the fact that the National Citizens Party primarily comprising the students that led and supported the July [----] uprising are now negotiating with the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami to form an electoral alliance is surely one of the most depressing outcomes of the political changes that have occurred in #bangladesh since then"
X Link 2025-12-25T18:25Z 83.8K followers, 14.6K engagements
"In light of the Awami Leagues successful effort to imprison Khaleda Zia and its far less successful though ardently pursued attempt to dismantle her party the BNP it is unclear whether Sheikh Hasinas and Sajeeb Wazed Joys condolences and generous remarks following her death should be read as gestures of exceptional magnanimity and good grace or as expressions of profound and twisted hypocrisy. Or a bit of both"
X Link 2025-12-30T18:48Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Toby Cadman has now provided this comment: "My contract expired in November and I was offered an extension but I decided not to extend it. It would not be appropriate to make any comment as to the reasons for stepping down. BREAKING: Toby Cadman the UK barrister and specialist in international criminal law has informed Muhammad Yunus that he is stepping down from his post as Special Adviser to the Chief Prosecutor of #Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal. No reasons have yet been provided. BREAKING: Toby Cadman the UK barrister and specialist in international criminal law has informed"
X Link 2026-01-19T11:42Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The newly published written judgment of #Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal on the Hasina conviction for crimes against humanity raises questions about how the judges assessed an important piece of audio evidence. New piece in @ProthomAlo https://en.prothomalo.com/opinion/op-ed/nnbkqbh8fw https://en.prothomalo.com/opinion/op-ed/nnbkqbh8fw"
X Link 2026-01-19T12:14Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Not sure @BabarHoneyX why you are making such personal attacks against @JonFDanilowicz. If you don't agree with his arguments question those rather than make your highly speculative assumptions about his motives. Jamaat paid for your first class flight tix so you could give a talk at Dhaka University. And your org RTF is funded by the NED Since NED is funded by the US Congress that means your organization receives U.S. government funding. So stop lying. Youre not doing this for free https://t.co/MR98vPbjtl Jamaat paid for your first class flight tix so you could give a talk at Dhaka"
X Link 2026-01-26T07:16Z 83.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@BabarHoneyX @JonFDanilowicz This is my last response on this. First he is not saying what you are suggesting. Quite the opposite from my reading. Second he is not and is not intending to speak on behalf of Bangladesh. Just himself"
X Link 2026-01-26T21:14Z 83.8K followers, [--] engagements
"A lot of secular looking unveiled woman protesting the execution of Molla A picture blunder by @guardian See here http://t.co/mxITI2QED1 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/15/prison-bangladesh-moudud-ahmed http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/15/prison-bangladesh-moudud-ahmed"
X Link 2013-12-15T14:26Z 84K followers, [--] engagements
"Murder case filed against [--] #bangladesh opposition leaders - but where is the evidence http://t.co/jUXiR41GcG http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2013/12/countdown-to-bangladesh-upcoming_23.html http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2013/12/countdown-to-bangladesh-upcoming_23.html"
X Link 2013-12-25T15:03Z 84K followers, [--] engagements
"Want to know why #bangladesh govt not allowing opposition to organise 'rally for democracy' in capital Read this http://t.co/ygumlvkCxo http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2013/12/countdown-to-bangladesh-upcoming_23.html#bnp_rally http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2013/12/countdown-to-bangladesh-upcoming_23.html#bnp_rally"
X Link 2013-12-28T20:40Z 84K followers, [--] engagements
"#bangladesh PM's son that tomorrow's polls will be 'free and fair'. Is he right http://t.co/fqsCRJ9XJ0 http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2013/12/countdown-to-bangladesh-upcoming_30.html#freefair http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2013/12/countdown-to-bangladesh-upcoming_30.html#freefair"
X Link 2014-01-04T11:49Z 84K followers, [--] engagements
"The biggest strategic error in the run up to #bangladesh's election today. http://t.co/5LHFQZ7hzj http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2014/01/bangladesh-election-day-5-january-2014.html#strategicerror http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2014/01/bangladesh-election-day-5-january-2014.html#strategicerror"
X Link 2014-01-05T02:01Z 84K followers, [--] engagements
"Turnout figures in [---] constituencies based on #bangladesh election figures suggest 38% turnout. Credible http://t.co/pze9FZ8ML7 http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2014/01/bangladesh-election-day-5-january-2014.html#turnoutfigures http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2014/01/bangladesh-election-day-5-january-2014.html#turnoutfigures"
X Link 2014-01-06T02:43Z 84K followers, [--] engagements
"Russia: '#Bangladesh government is will of the voters' http://t.co/OAV5ITf9Sf http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2014/01/russia-bangladesh-government-is-will-of.html http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2014/01/russia-bangladesh-government-is-will-of.html"
X Link 2014-01-11T05:04Z 84K followers, [--] engagements
"It gets more hilarious The #bangladesh government's ever-so-loyal opposition - gets three minister-ships. http://t.co/PELrhCaX6f http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-governments-loyal-opposition.html http://bangladeshpolitico.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-governments-loyal-opposition.html"
X Link 2014-01-12T14:41Z 84K followers, [--] engagements
"BBC report that Scotland Yard police searched London home of alleged IS recruiter arrested in #bangladesh http://t.co/Ya5iVNluto http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-29469865 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-29469865"
X Link 2014-10-04T07:14Z 84K followers, [--] engagements
"Who is to blame for #disappearances of opposition activists in #Bangladesh see @AJEnglish http://t.co/XWWEIdBIS8 http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/10/disappearances-surge-bangladesh-20141019124512338962.html http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/10/disappearances-surge-bangladesh-20141019124512338962.html"
X Link 2014-10-20T09:37Z 84K followers, [--] engagements
"My own little personal drama today in the #bangladesh appellate division https://www.facebook.com/david.bergman.77377/posts/10152879329758824pnref=story https://www.facebook.com/david.bergman.77377/posts/10152879329758824pnref=story"
X Link 2014-11-03T04:48Z 84K followers, [--] engagements
"@J_Allchin @tfexj According to press reports he went to president to raise issues about unfair trial. Mercy petitions must go through jailer"
X Link 2015-11-21T19:24Z 84K followers, [--] engagements
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