International Courant
DHAKA, Bangladesh
Bangladesh introduced {that a} curfew will proceed Friday and Saturday with a nine-hour pause amid an intensified crackdown in opposition to these concerned in violence throughout pupil protests.
House Minister Asaduzzaman Khan made an announcement at a information convention early Friday after assembly with regulation enforcement that the curfew, which got here into impact final Saturday, will proceed in Dhaka and three different cities.
There will probably be a pause within the curfew from 8 a.m. to five p.m. in these cities, he added.
The choice on the curfew in different cities will probably be taken by the authorities there, he mentioned.
Protesting college students introduced that they are going to proceed their marketing campaign till a nine-point checklist of calls for is met that features the banning of the Chhatra League, the prosecution of these chargeable for killings of protesters, and an apology from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The demise toll has risen to not less than 204 since July 16, in line with the native newspaper Prothom Alo. The federal government, nonetheless, has but to launch an official casualty report.
In the meantime, police have arrested greater than 5,500 folks throughout the nation, together with 1,100 on Thursday, mentioned the newspaper, including that lots of these arrested are members of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Celebration (BNP) and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.
Khan additionally mentioned the arrests would proceed.
The federal government imposed a whole blackout final Friday, chopping web companies because the protests turned violent. Broadband web service has been restored on a restricted scale throughout the nation, however cell web service has not but returned.
College students launched the protests in early July, calling for reform of the nation’s quota system for presidency jobs. The protests changed into a large motion after Sheikh Hasina labeled the protesters “razakar,” a time period that refers to traitors who fought for Pakistani forces throughout Bangladesh’s battle of independence in 1971.
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