{"id":65977,"date":"2024-08-02T00:50:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T15:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/01\/bangladesh-arrests-protests-crackdown"},"modified":"2024-08-02T00:50:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T15:50:38","slug":"bangladesh-arrests-more-than-10000-in-crackdown-on-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65977","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh arrests more than 10,000 in crackdown on protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Student protests that began over government-job quotas have led to mass roundups, says families of detainees<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh has arrested more than 10,000 people and banned a major opposition party as part of a crackdown on dissent after weeks of protests.<\/p>\n<p>The country has been in turmoil since a mass student movement began against quotas for government jobs. It escalated into deadly clashes when protesters were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/20\/bangladesh-police-given-shoot-on-sight-orders-amid-national-curfew\">attacked by pro-government groups and hit by police with teargas, rubber bullets and pellets.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/01\/bangladesh-arrests-protests-crackdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student protests that began over government-job quotas have led to mass roundups, says families of detaineesBangladesh has arrested more than 10,000 people and banned a major opposition party as part of a crackdown on dissent after weeks of protests.Th&#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":[327,80,2816,61,693,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-protest","category-sheikh-hasina","category-south-and-central-asia","category-students","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65977","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=65977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65978,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65977\/revisions\/65978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}