Bangladesh’s #Shahbag Protests · Global Voices

#Shahbag Protests 16 February, 2013. Image by Mohammad Asad. Copyright Demotix
This moment has been in the making for decades. Hundreds of thousands are occupying Shahbag, an intersection in the heart of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, demanding death penalty for war crimes committed during Bangladesh's liberation from Pakistan in 1971.
On 5 February 2013, the Bloggers and Online Activists Network (BOAN) initiated the call to occupy Shahbag and demand capital punishment for the secretary general of the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami Abdul Quader Mollah, hours after he was sentenced to life in prison on 344 counts of murder, rape and torture committed during 1971.
Since then, the demands for death penalty have extended to all war criminals facing trial and protests have spread like wildfire across the country.
Like Mollah, some other indicted war criminals have held public office and were living a life of impunity in Bangladesh for decades until 2010, when proceedings were initiated against them by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT).
Our #Shahbag Coverage
14 Dec: Bangladesh Executes Islamist Leader Abdul Quader Mollah for War Crimes
4 Dec: ‘How Many Burning Bodies Will Satisfy Them?': Political Violence in Bangladesh
6 Aug: Bangladesh Court Disqualifies Jamaat-e-Islami Party from Elections
28 Jul: Bangladeshi Blogger Writes About Prison Experience
4 May: Islamists Demand that Bangladesh's Women Stay at Home
5 Apr: Protests Against Arrest of Bloggers Charged with Blasphemy in Bangladesh
1 Apr: Bangladesh Authorities Go After Bloggers, Claim They Are ‘Anti-Muslim’
16 Mar: Revenge Attacks Target Bangladesh Hindus for Islamist Leader's Death Sentence
5 Mar: Violence Flares in Bangladesh Over Islamist Leader's Death Sentence
1 Mar: #Shahbag Protesters Fight off Atheist Shadow Cast by Islamist Groups
1 Mar: Religion Warps Politics as Bangladesh War Crimes Protests Continue
27 Feb: What India Can Learn From #Shahbag
19 Feb: Videos from #Shahbag, Bangladesh's Generation Square
18 Feb: #Shahbag Protesters Bid Farewell to Brutally Murdered Blogger
16 Feb: Bangladeshi Artists Capture Shahbag Protests in Cartoons
15 Feb: #Shahbag Blogger Hacked To Death
14 Feb: Bangladesh Unites at Shahbag for 42-Year-Old War Crimes
11 Feb: Bangladeshi Women Join Shahbag Protests in Remarkable Numbers
10 Feb: In Pictures: The Protesting Crowd In Shahbag
10 Feb: #Shahbag in a 140 Characters
8 Feb:  Bangladesh: All Roads Lead To Shahbagh
7 Feb: Bangladesh: Protesters Demand Capital Punishment for 1971 War Criminals
10 Dec 2012: ‘The Economist’ Accused of Hacking by Bangladesh's War Crimes Tribunal
Global Voices Advocacy posts
18 Sep: Bangladesh's ICT Act Stoops to New Lows
6 Apr: Bangladesh: Global Voices Condemns Assault on Bloggers
3 Apr: Netizen Report: Bloggers Under Threat in Bangladesh and Beyond
2 Apr: Accused of Blasphemy, Three Bloggers Detained in Bangladesh
Resources
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Hashtags: #Shahbag | #Shahbagh
Follow: @Shahbaginfo | @Shahbagorg
Shahbag: An Ocean in the Making from Mehdi Hasan Khan on Vimeo.
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