{"id":66051,"date":"2024-08-06T11:37:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T02:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/06\/bangladesh-student-protesters-to-meet-with-army-chief-after-pm-resigns"},"modified":"2024-08-07T05:02:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T20:02:52","slug":"bangladesh-student-protesters-to-meet-with-army-chief-after-pm-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66051","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh parliament dissolved a day after resignation of prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes after longtime leader Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled country after weeks of deadly unrest<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/05\/why-bangladesh-prime-minister-sheikh-hasina-resigned\">Explainer: Why has Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2024\/aug\/06\/mass-protests-in-bangladesh-in-pictures\">Mass protests in Bangladesh \u2013 in pictures<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The president of Bangladesh has dissolved the country\u2019s parliament after an ultimatum issued by the coordinators of student protests that forced the resignation on Monday of the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina.<\/p>\n<p>The office of the president, Mohammed Shahabuddin, also announced that the former prime minister and opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia had been officially released from prison and given a full presidential pardon.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/06\/bangladesh-student-protesters-to-meet-with-army-chief-after-pm-resigns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes after longtime leader Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled country after weeks of deadly unrestExplainer: Why has Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled?Mass protests in Bangladesh \u2013 in picturesThe president of Bangladesh has dissolved the country\u2019s par&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[327,59,232,2816,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-global-development","category-governance","category-sheikh-hasina","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\/66051","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66051"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66074,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66051\/revisions\/66074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}