{"id":57083,"date":"2023-07-30T01:10:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T16:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/jul\/29\/bangladesh-police-fire-teargas-and-rubber-bullets-amid-demonstrations-in-dhaka-video"},"modified":"2023-07-30T01:10:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T16:10:04","slug":"bangladesh-police-fire-teargas-and-rubber-bullets-amid-demonstrations-in-dhaka-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57083","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh: police fire teargas and rubber bullets amid demonstrations in Dhaka \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police fired teargas and rubber bullets at demonstrators gathered for the second consecutive day in Bangladesh&#8217;s capital, Dhaka. Opposition protesters organised rallies blocking major roads into Dhaka as they called for prime minister Sheikh Hasina to give power to a caretaker government ahead of elections next year. Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, the Bangladesh National party&#8217;s senior joint secretary general, said: &#8216;We are following the democratic ways for a peaceful event. We are conducting our event with the people and our supporters. They may hit us. But we will stay strong on our demand.&#8217; Clashes broke out between different opposition groups and police when the force moved in to disperse the crowds<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/29\/bangladesh-police-clash-protesters-dhaka-blockade-sheikh-hasina\">Bangladesh police clash with protesters calling for PM to resign<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/jul\/29\/bangladesh-police-fire-teargas-and-rubber-bullets-amid-demonstrations-in-dhaka-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police fired teargas and rubber bullets at demonstrators gathered for the second consecutive day in Bangladesh&#8217;s capital, Dhaka. Opposition protesters organised rallies blocking major roads into Dhaka as they called for prime minister Sheikh Hasina to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[327,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/57083","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57084,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57083\/revisions\/57084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}