Bangladesh's PM rejects claims of repression: 'I do politics for the people'
Exclusive: Sheikh Hasina Wazed rebuffs claims curbs on opposition activists and the media are turning Bangladesh into a one-party state
Bangladesh’s prime minister has dismissed accusations that democracy and rule of law are being undermined by her increasingly authoritarian behaviour and by extensive human rights abuses by the police and security forces.
In a wide-ranging interview in Dhaka, Sheikh Hasina Wazed , Bangladesh’s formidable, long-serving head of government rejected claims that extra-judicial killings, numerous so-called “enforced disappearances”, mass arrests of opposition activists and Islamists, and new restrictions on media and internet freedoms were turning the world’s third most populous Muslim nation into a repressive, de facto one-party state.
