In this episode of Head to Head, Mehdi Hasan challenges Gowher Rizvi, the International Affairs advisor to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, on the state of the country’s democracy and whether it is heading towards authoritarianism. Once one of the poorest countries in the region, Bangladesh’s economy has been booming over the last decade, with…… Read More
India is at a dangerous moment. The voices of Hindutva – Hindu supremacy – are ascending, spreading division and hate speech. It has worked its way through the body politic like a slow-acting poison. And the effect on the secular fabric of the Indian republic and the lives of minorities – especially Muslims – has…… Read More
FBI agents in the U.S. state of Florida have conducted a criminal search of former president Donald Trump’s home. It’s seen as a significant escalation of the federal investigation into whether Trump illegally removed classified documents from the White House, as he was leaving office in January last year. Trump criticised the raid, calling it…… Read More
Anger over a viral video of a woman being stripped, beaten and sexually assaulted by nine men in Bangladesh, as she begged for mercy, has brought thousands of people to the streets. Demonstrators are now demanding justice for women who have been raped and sexually assaulted, and an end to what they say is a…… Read More
Unfortunately industrial accidents are too common in Bangladesh. In the latest incident, dozens of people were killed in a fire and explosion at a container port near the city of Chattogram. It’s estimated industrial accidents have killed more than 2,000 people in the country during the past two decades. So are companies and the government…… Read More
Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has uncovered a criminal network colluding with the security forces of Bangladesh which is profiting from powerful links with the country’s prime minister. Our investigation found evidence that General Aziz Ahmed, head of the Bangladesh Army, helped criminals to evade justice and make money from state corruption. Al Jazeera’s Will Thorne…… Read More
July 11th marks two months since Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed by Israeli forces. Abu Akleh was on assignment covering Israeli army raids in the city of Jenin when she was gunned down. Last week the US State Department announced that a ballistics investigation was inconclusive in determining the origin…… Read More
The United Nations has said that information it had gathered showed that the shots that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11 was fired by Israeli forces. “All information we have gathered … is consistent with the finding that the shots that killed Abu Akleh and injured her colleague Ali Sammoudi came…… Read More
Bangladesh’s legal system includes laws that have been weaponised against those who dare to express political dissent against the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina – or anyone who questions basic tenets of Islam – the religion of nearly 90% of Bangladeshis. One of those laws, the Digital Security Act, has only been on the…… Read More
Israeli security forces have killed three Palestinians in the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Tuesday, drawing condemnation from Palestinian Authority (PA). “Three citizens were martyred as a result of direct shooting by Israeli forces in the city of Nablus,” the ministry said in a statement.…… Read More
Each year in the US, tens of thousands of Black women and girls are involved in disappearance cases, but very few of these stories will ever receive mainstream media attention. In the case of Lauren Smith-Fields, a 23-year-old Black woman found dead in her Connecticut apartment on December 12, national news outlets eventually picked up…… Read More
The UK government has published a redacted version of an eagerly awaited report on claims of lockdown-breaking parties at the office of Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The document was submitted to Downing Street on Monday by senior civil servant Sue Gray, who investigated a series of revelations about boozy get-togethers held while the government told…… Read More