{"id":66832,"date":"2024-09-19T11:07:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T02:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/19\/bangladesh-protests-sheikh-hasina-amir-chowdhury"},"modified":"2024-09-19T11:07:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T02:07:28","slug":"a-long-way-to-go-in-revolutions-wake-questions-linger-over-direction-of-the-new-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66832","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A long way to go\u2019: in revolution\u2019s wake, questions linger over direction of the new Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the giddy public highs following Hasina\u2019s departure, the interim government has admitted that weight of expectation is enormous <\/p>\n<p>Like so many of Sheikh Hasina\u2019s political rivals, Amir Chowdhury was in jail the day that the prime minister fled Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>Chowdhury, a senior leader in the opposition Bangladesh National Party (BNP), had been picked up by police three weeks earlier, in July, as mass protests began to engulf the country and a violent crackdown began in response. It was Chowdhury\u2019s third stint in prison since Hasina took power 15 years ago and began a campaign to destroy his party.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/19\/bangladesh-protests-sheikh-hasina-amir-chowdhury\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the giddy public highs following Hasina\u2019s departure, the interim government has admitted that weight of expectation is enormous Like so many of Sheikh Hasina\u2019s political rivals, Amir Chowdhury was in jail the day that the prime minister fled Bang&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1300,"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":[327,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","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\/66832","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\/1300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66833,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66832\/revisions\/66833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}