{"id":56294,"date":"2023-06-28T22:44:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T13:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/jun\/28\/shahidul-islam-bangladeshi-labour-leader-shahidul-islam-beaten-to-death-wages-dispute"},"modified":"2023-06-28T22:44:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T13:44:42","slug":"bangladeshi-labour-leader-beaten-to-death-while-trying-to-resolve-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56294","title":{"rendered":"Bangladeshi labour leader beaten to death while trying to resolve dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shahidul Islam died in an assault on Sunday in Dhaka after meeting garment factory employees fighting for unpaid salaries <\/p>\n<p>Police in Bangladesh are investigating the murder of a prominent trade union leader who was fatally beaten while trying to settle a dispute between a garment factory owner and workers over unpaid wages.<\/p>\n<p>Shahidul Islam, 45, a top labour organiser for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.industriall-union.org\/affiliates\/bangladesh\">Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation (BGIWF<\/a>), was attacked on Sunday evening in Gazipur, a major garment industry hub on the outskirts of Dhaka, after intervening on behalf of workers who had gathered to demand back pay.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/jun\/28\/shahidul-islam-bangladeshi-labour-leader-shahidul-islam-beaten-to-death-wages-dispute\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shahidul Islam died in an assault on Sunday in Dhaka after meeting garment factory employees fighting for unpaid salaries Police in Bangladesh are investigating the murder of a prominent trade union leader who was fatally beaten while trying to settle &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3820,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,1453,59,61,2428,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-garment-workers","category-global-development","category-south-and-central-asia","category-workers-rights","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3820"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56295,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56294\/revisions\/56295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}