(Adnkronos) – The political climate in Bangladesh remains tense, where on February 12 voters will be called to the polls for parliamentary elections and a referendum on reforms, on the so-called ‘July Charter’. Sharif Osman Hadi, one of the faces of the 2024 student uprising, also known as the July Revolution, who was supposed to be among the candidates in the upcoming consultations, has been transferred to Singapore for medical treatment after being targeted in a shooting ambush on Friday in Dhaka. The Daily Star reports this. Today there were protests in the capital to denounce, Dhaka Tribune reports, the ambush against Hadi, who was on a rickshaw when assailants shot him in the face from a motorcycle.
The attack occurred the day after the announcement of the election date, the first elections since the protests that forced the then-premier Sheikh Hasina to flee to India, who was sentenced to capital punishment for crimes against humanity in connection with the repression of last summer’s protests. The interim administration led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohamed Yunus is in power, and he has called the attack “unacceptable.” The government has announced strengthened security measures for all candidates.
