{"id":75735,"date":"2025-12-24T18:45:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/dec\/24\/bangladesh-media-newspapers-civil-society-targeted-mobs-sheikh-hasina"},"modified":"2025-12-24T18:45:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:45:36","slug":"how-hope-is-fading-the-mobs-bringing-violence-back-to-the-streets-of-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75735","title":{"rendered":"How hope is fading: the mobs bringing violence back to the streets of Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As crowds attack newspaper offices and violence has killed 184 people, the optimism around Sheikh Hasina\u2019s overthrow has dimmed<\/p>\n<p>The sounds of a mob were already audible when Zyma Islam hit send on her article for Friday\u2019s edition of Bangladesh\u2019s Daily Star newspaper. She quickly headed out, hoping to avoid the crowd that had already burned down the offices of Prothom Alo, another of Bangladesh\u2019s most prestigious newspapers. But when she reached the door, they were already there.<\/p>\n<p>The rioters were a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/19\/sharif-osman-hadi-dead-bangladesh-violence-protests\">ngered by the assassination of Sharif Osman Hadi<\/a>, a prominent leader from the pro-democracy movement that unseated the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/17\/ousted-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-found-guilty-of-crimes-against-humanity\">former prime minister Sheikh Hasina<\/a> in August 2024. Hadi\u2019s killers were Hasina loyalists who had escaped to India, according to the authorities. The crowd that had rapidly gathered on the night of 18 December was ready to lash out at anyone they saw as linked to the previous government.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/dec\/24\/bangladesh-media-newspapers-civil-society-targeted-mobs-sheikh-hasina\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As crowds attack newspaper offices and violence has killed 184 people, the optimism around Sheikh Hasina\u2019s overthrow has dimmedThe sounds of a mob were already audible when Zyma Islam hit send on her article for Friday\u2019s edition of Bangladesh\u2019s Daily S&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":942,"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":[327,458,59,238,3119,671,672,54,80,2816,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-censorship","category-global-development","category-media","category-muhammad-yunus","category-newspapers","category-newspapers-magazines","category-press-freedom","category-protest","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\/75735","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\/942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75736,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75735\/revisions\/75736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}