Violent protests in Bangladesh after pro-democracy figure dies in hospital

Youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi was shot by masked assailants on 12 December as he left a mosqueViolence broke out in Bangladesh’s capital early on Friday after a youth leader of the country’s 2024 pro-democracy uprising who was injured in an assassination attempt died in a hospital in Singapore.Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Dhaka after the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, 32, was announced, to demand that his killers be arrested. Continue reading...