US immigration protests widen
Los Angeles police began arresting people in the city鈥檚 downtown late Tuesday, as groups gathered in violation of an overnight curfew after a fifth day of protests against Donald Trump鈥檚 immigration crackdown...
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Court backs Trump in ending migrant protections
The US Supreme Court handed president Donald Trump a major victory Friday in his immigration crackdown, giving his administration the green light to revoke the legal status of half a million migrants from four Caribbean and Latin American countries...
3 arrested during protest at crackdown on battery-run rickshaws in Ctg
Three individuals, including leaders of Bangladesh Samajtantrik Dal, Basad in short, and Samajtantrik Chhatra Front, were arrested during a rally in Chattogram on Tuesday, protesting at the ongoing crackdown on battery-run rickshaws and alleged police harassment...
India鈥檚 Maoists say ready to talk if crackdown paused
India鈥檚 Maoist insurgents, cornered by an all-out military offensive, have offered to engage in peace talks but insist security operations must stop first, a condition authorities have rejected...
US House begins work on Trump immigration crackdown
US lawmakers voted Tuesday to expand pre-trial incarceration for foreign criminal suspects as a new Congress unified under Republican control works to deliver on Donald Trump鈥檚 vow to crack down on illegal immigration...
Rights groups condemn Cambodia crackdown on critics of regional deal
Rights groups criticised Cambodian authorities on Wednesday for the arrests of 94 people in a 鈥榟eavy-handed鈥� crackdown on critics of a regional economic development plan with Laos and Vietnam...
DU, JU students break into halls
Protesting students of Dhaka University and Jahangirnagar University on Sunday afternoon broke into 11 residential halls, including five in DU and six in JU, which were shut on July 17 amid a police crackdown on the student movement for reforming the quota system in government jobs...
Students demand justice amidst massacre
SHEIKH Hasina鈥檚 government is now under fire for what many are calling a war against her own people. In the past week alone, more than 200 people were reportedly killed in a brutal crackdown on protests. The government deployed helmeted forces, the Chhatra League, the army, the police and border guards using armoured vehicles and helicopters...
Nat鈥檒 mass inquiry commission a welcome development
IN A historically and politically significant move, a national mass inquiry commission to investigate the recent violent crackdown on student protests that sought reforms in public service job quota was announced on July 29 at a protest that lawyers organised in Dhaka. The commission is meant to establish the political and legal liability for...
Bangladesh says quota protest leaders held for their own safety
Bangladesh said three student leaders had been taken into custody on Friday for their own safety.
UN rights chief urges probe of Bangladesh protest 'crackdown'
The United Nations high officials have called on Bangladesh to urgently disclose the details of the past week鈥檚 crackdown on protests amid accounts of 鈥榟orrific violence鈥�, calling for...
3 journalists killed, 150 injured in 6 days
The rising casualties of journalists while covering the ongoing government crackdown on the students鈥� protest demanding quota reform in the civil service exposed the dangerous environment in which journalists work in Bangladesh...
Finance minister for crackdown on loan defaulters
Finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Sunday said that the next course of action should be launching crackdown on loan defaulters after the exchange rate problem was almost fixed...
Romania indicts ex-president again over 1990 crackdown
Romanian prosecutors Friday issued a fresh indictment against former president Ion Iliescu for crimes against humanity in a deadly 1990 crackdown on protesters, the latest of several proceedings against him...
Crackdown on protests continues following one-sided elections: report
Johannesburg based rights monitoring body CIVICUS Monitor said that criminalisation of activists and crackdown on protests continued following one-sided elections in Bangladesh...