Bangladesh Protests: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Statue Vandalised By Protesters as Sheikh Hasina Flees. Posted: August 5, 2024 | Last updated: February 3, 2025.

People stand around the vandalized residence of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's former leader and the father of the country's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka, Bangladesh ...

"Sheikh Mujib's freedom fighter status has not been revoked despite the amendment of the Jamuka Act," Azad Majumder, deputy press secretary to the Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus, told ANI.

NEW DELHI (AP) — In a video that lit up social media feeds in Bangladesh, jubilant protesters climbed atop a statue of Sheikh Mujib Rahman, the country’s first leader after independence, and ...

Bangladesh's longtime prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, resigned and fled to India on Monday amid escalating student-led protests that her government had tried to crush with force, leaving hundreds ...

Protesters try to demolish a large statue of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of Bangladesh leader Sheikh Hasina, after she resigned as prime minister, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024.

The 76-year-old Hasina, who is the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first Prime Minister of the country, had become increasingly authoritarian in recent years.

O VER THE past ten days Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, has been transformed. Images of Sheikh Hasina, the former prime minister who fled the country on August 5th, and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, her ...

Protesters try to demolish a large statue of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of Bangladesh leader Sheikh Hasina, after she resigned as Prime Minister, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. (AP ...