July uprising

Where is that change people shed their blood for?

The very people who had stood shoulder to shoulder in July-August 2024, responding to the call of protesting students and refusing to compromise on their demands for rights and reform, now stand divided
7 August 2026

Quader told BCL to beat students in July

The prosecution yesterday played before the International Crimes Tribunal-2 a forensic-verified audio recording in which then Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader was heard instructing Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders to “beat” student protesters during the July uprising.
7 August 2026

How Sheikh Hasina's iron grip unravelled

From electoral controversies to student protests, the events that brought an end to Hasina's 15-year rule
5 August 2026

July Uprising: The day an autocrat fell

Around 11:00am on August 5, 2024, Sheikh Hasina was told what she had refused to believe: the protesters could no longer be stopped from reaching Gono Bhaban.
5 August 2026

Government giving space to anti-July narratives: Nahid

Former comrades in government are allowing propaganda to spread and slowing the pursuit of justice, opposition chief whip says
4 August 2026

Hasina’s departure was ‘part of a package’, says Zahed

Government not considering investigation into those who facilitated the ousted prime minister’s exit from Bangladesh, he says
4 August 2026

Divided by ideology, united in misogyny: How women of July became targets across Bangladesh's political spectrum

From the activity-banned Awami League to the BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and the far right, political rivals repeatedly used the same misogynistic narratives to attack women who rose to prominence after the July Uprising
3 August 2026

August 3, 2024: One demand now, ‘Hasina’s resignation’

Exactly two years ago, on this day in 2024, tens of thousands of people gathered at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka.
3 August 2026

'Nothing has changed': Fakhrul laments persistence of bribery, obstruction

LGRD minister says the old administrative culture survives despite the sacrifices and promise of the July Uprising
30 July 2026

Who writes the history of the July Uprising?

Analysing Bangladesh's July Uprising reveals how selective political memory threatens to erase Left politics from the history of protest.
29 July 2026

ICT grants investigators two days to interrogate Muzaffar

Former army officer shown arrested in crimes against humanity case
23 July 2026

Jatrabari killings case: ICT asks jail authorities to produce four accused on August 3

Former AL MP Kazi Monirul Islam among those to be produced before tribunal
22 July 2026

ICT orders the army to produce Muzaffar

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday ordered the Bangladesh Army to produce Major (retd) Muzaffar Hossain before it by tomorrow morning in connection to a crimes against humanity case.
22 July 2026

The children we lost in July uprising

The last thing 16-year-old Aminul Islam Amin told his mother before leaving home on July 21, 2024, was, “Maa, give me Tk 20. I want to buy some jhalmuri from the street”. After she gave him the money, he stepped outside and never returned home.
21 July 2026

July then and now: Remembering the month that changed us

Sometimes I find myself wondering what it must feel like to have July arrive without something tightening in one’s chest.
17 July 2026

2 years on, July cases move at a crawl

Two years after losing her son during the July uprising, Bithy Begum’s long wait for justice has turned her grief into anguish.
16 July 2026

July Martyrs’ Day: ‘Before I die, I want the killers punished’

The afternoon sun filters through the veranda of a modest semi‑pucca house in Babanpur village of Madankhali union under Pirganj upazila of Rangpur.
16 July 2026

Bodies of July victims dumped in river: ICT chief prosecutor

Investigators found evidence of hospitals disposing of bodies without official records, he says
15 July 2026

Is the government losing its grip on law and order?

After years of widespread human rights abuses under the Awami League government, the July uprising in 2024 created hopes for a new beginning.
5 July 2026

18 crore people were the mastermind of July Uprising: Jamaat ameer

Opposition leader clarifies his earlier description of Tarique Rahman as the movement’s 'main hero'
28 June 2026