{"id":59741,"date":"2023-11-10T07:13:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T22:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/nov\/09\/three-dead-as-police-clash-with-garment-workers-in-bangladesh-demanding-a-wage-increase-video"},"modified":"2023-11-10T07:13:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T22:13:36","slug":"three-dead-as-police-clash-with-garment-workers-in-bangladesh-demanding-a-wage-increase-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59741","title":{"rendered":"Three dead as police clash with garment workers in Bangladesh demanding a wage increase \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>higher wages. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>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>\n<p>The minimum-wage-setting process for garment workers had been going on in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/bangladesh\">Bangladesh<\/a> since April 2023, but fresh violence broke out this week after the government\u2019s announcement of a monthly wage increase to just 12,500 taka (\u00a392), which workers and rights groups deemed inadequate \u2013 and is half of what the workers are asking for.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/nov\/07\/workers-for-fast-fashion-brands-fear-starvation-as-they-fight-for-higher-wages\"><strong>Workers for fast fashion brands fear starvation as they fight for higher wages<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/nov\/09\/bangladeshi-woman-dies-police-open-fire-on-protesting-garment-workers\"><strong>Bangladeshi woman killed after police open fire on protesting garment workers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/nov\/09\/three-dead-as-police-clash-with-garment-workers-in-bangladesh-demanding-a-wage-increase-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bangladeshi woman was shot dead on Wednesday after police in Dhaka opened fire during a protest held by garment workers demanding higher wages. Anjuara Khatun, a 26-year-old machine operator at Islam Garments in Gazipur, was on her way home after the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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":[327,80,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-protest","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\/59741","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59742,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59741\/revisions\/59742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}