{"id":65773,"date":"2024-07-21T20:24:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T11:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/21\/bangladesh-court-scraps-job-quotas-student-led-protests"},"modified":"2024-07-21T20:24:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T11:24:47","slug":"bangladeshs-top-court-cuts-job-quotas-that-led-to-deadly-student-led-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65773","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh\u2019s top court cuts job quotas that led to deadly student-led protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Court overturns ruling reserving 30% of government jobs for independence war veterans and their relatives <\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh\u2019s top court has scaled back<strong> <\/strong>the quotas on government jobs that led to widespread student-led protests and violent clashes that killed more than 100 people.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday afternoon the supreme court overturned a ruling that had reintroduced quotas for all civil service jobs, meaning that 30% were reserved for veterans and relatives of those who fought in the Bangladesh war of independence in 1971.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/21\/bangladesh-court-scraps-job-quotas-student-led-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court overturns ruling reserving 30% of government jobs for independence war veterans and their relatives Bangladesh\u2019s top court has scaled back the quotas on government jobs that led to widespread student-led protests and violent clashes that killed m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4343,"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-65773","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\/65773","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\/4343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65774,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65773\/revisions\/65774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}