{"id":59736,"date":"2023-11-10T02:13:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T17:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/nov\/09\/bangladeshi-woman-dies-police-open-fire-on-protesting-garment-workers"},"modified":"2023-11-10T02:13:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T17:13:46","slug":"bangladeshi-woman-killed-after-police-open-fire-on-protesting-garment-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59736","title":{"rendered":"Bangladeshi woman killed after police open fire on protesting garment workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employees making clothes for fast-fashion brands have been demonstrating  against a new minimum salary of \u00a392 a month<\/p>\n<p>A Bangladeshi woman was shot dead on Wednesday after police in Dhaka opened fire during a protest held by garment workers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/nov\/07\/workers-for-fast-fashion-brands-fear-starvation-as-they-fight-for-higher-wages\">demanding a wage increase<\/a>. Anjuara Khatun, a 26-year-old machine operator at Islam Garments in Gazipur, was on her way home after the factory closed suddenly as a large group of protesters gathered nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband told reporters he heard gunshots when police opened fire on about 400 workers and then saw people carrying his wife\u2019s motionless body. \u201cShe was shot in the head and died in the car on the way to the hospital,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was blood oozing out from a hole in her head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/nov\/09\/bangladeshi-woman-dies-police-open-fire-on-protesting-garment-workers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees making clothes for fast-fashion brands have been demonstrating  against a new minimum salary of \u00a392 a monthA Bangladeshi woman was shot dead on Wednesday after police in Dhaka opened fire during a protest held by garment workers demanding a w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3158,"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":[327,1453,59,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-garment-workers","category-global-development","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\/59736","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\/3158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59737,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59736\/revisions\/59737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}