Four female MPs from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) were arrested by police as they tried to enter their party office. Mohammed Asad/Demotix. All rights reserved.
At 3pm in the afternoon on Friday 6 February, three men from Chattra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League political party, arrived at a house in Dhaka’s Jatrabari district. The men demanded the whereabouts of the household’s father, a local leader of the opposition party, Jamaat-e-Islami. The father was away; only his wife, daughter and elderly mother were home. The men demanded the keys to the family wardrobes seeking to loot valuables, and when denied, proceeded to violently vandalise the house, breaking belongings.
