{"id":59875,"date":"2023-11-15T23:28:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T14:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/nov\/15\/bangladesh-garment-workers-fighting-for-pay-face-brutal-violence-and-threats"},"modified":"2023-11-15T23:28:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T14:28:01","slug":"bangladesh-garment-workers-fighting-for-pay-face-brutal-violence-and-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59875","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh garment workers fighting for pay face brutal violence and threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers describe hands and arms being targeted in \u2018merciless\u2019 beatings as protests over low wages turn increasingly violent in Dhaka<\/p>\n<p>When Masuma Akhtar arrived at the garment factory where she works on the outskirts of Dhaka on 31 October, she was expecting a normal shift. Instead, she was met with brute violence. \u201cThe moment I walked through the factory gates, a group of armed men began beating me with wooden sticks,\u201d says Akhtar. \u201cI fell down on to the ground. Even then they wouldn\u2019t stop beating me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Akhtar, 22, is a seamstress at Dekko Knitwears in Mirpur, where she spends long days churning out clothes for western fashion brands, including Marks &amp; Spencer, C&amp;A and PVH Corp, which owns Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/nov\/15\/bangladesh-garment-workers-fighting-for-pay-face-brutal-violence-and-threats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers describe hands and arms being targeted in \u2018merciless\u2019 beatings as protests over low wages turn increasingly violent in DhakaWhen Masuma Akhtar arrived at the garment factory where she works on the outskirts of Dhaka on 31 October, she was expec&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4037,"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":[327,6,847,576,833,1453,59,53,335,61,2428,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-business","category-employment","category-fashion","category-fashion-industry","category-garment-workers","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-retail-industry","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\/59875","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\/4037"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59915,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59875\/revisions\/59915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}