{"id":40823,"date":"2024-07-22T10:16:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T10:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=40823"},"modified":"2024-07-22T10:16:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T10:16:10","slug":"over-500-people-including-opposition-leaders-arrested-amid-violence-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=40823","title":{"rendered":"Over 500 People, Including Opposition Leaders, Arrested Amid Violence In Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NDTV<strong>:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 500 people, including some opposition leaders, have been arrested over days of clashes in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka sparked by protests against job quotas, police said Monday.<br>&#8220;At least 532 people have been arrested over the violence,&#8221; Dhaka Metropolitan Police spokesman Faruk Hossain told AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;They include some BNP leaders,&#8221; he added, referring to the opposition Bangladesh National Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The detainees included the BNP&#8217;s third-most senior leader Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury and its spokesman Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A former national football captain turned senior BNP figure, Aminul Huq, was also held, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mia Golam Parwar, the general secretary of the country&#8217;s largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, was also arrested, Hossain said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said at least three policemen had been killed during the unrest in the capital and about 1,000 injured, at least 60 of them critically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NDTV:\u00a0 More than 500 people, including some opposition leaders, have been arrested over days of clashes in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka sparked by protests against job quotas, police said Monday.&#8220;At least 532 people have been arrested over the violence,&#8221; Dhaka Metropolitan Police spokesman Faruk Hossain told AFP. &#8220;They include some BNP leaders,&#8221; he added, referring to the opposition Bangladesh National Party. The detainees included the BNP&#8217;s third-most senior leader Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury and its spokesman Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed, he said. A former national football captain turned senior BNP figure, Aminul Huq, was also held, he added. Mia Golam&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40825,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40823\/revisions\/40825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}