Offstream
news

Over 100 people are injured in violent clashes in Dhaka, Bangladesh, between supporters of the ruling Awami League party and opposition demonstrators protesting government job quotas which benefit pro-government families.
2024-07-15

Uganda's Constitutional Court upholds the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023, which prescribes the death penalty for certain homosexual acts.
2024-04-3

Bangladesh and Myanmar order massive evacuations as Cyclone Mocha makes landfall in both countries' coastal areas. Six people are killed in Myanmar, with about 90% of the city of Sittwe being destroyed.
2023-05-14

The judicial commissioner of Singapore sentences a Bangladeshi national to death after he was found guilty of murdering his Indonesian girlfriend two years ago. In Singapore, a charge of murder carries the mandatory death penalty.
2020-12-14

Bangladesh plans to introduce the death penalty for rape, following days of protests about the country's high level of sexual violence against women.
2020-10-12

A ferry sinks on the Meghna River in Bangladesh's Munshiganj District resulting in at least 12 deaths and hundreds missing.
2014-05-15

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina rejects demands by Islamists for a new anti-blasphemy law to punish those who defame Islam and Prophet Muhammad.
2013-04-8

At least 35 people are killed across Bangladesh in violent demonstrations sparked when Islamic political leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi was sentenced to death for war crimes.
2013-02-28

2013 Bangladesh protests: In Bangladesh, mass protests continue, with over 100,000 peacefully congregating and demanding the death penalty for the atrocities committed during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
2013-02-9

Police in Bangladesh arrest senior opposition leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury on charges of instigating violence and war crimes.
2010-12-16