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Bangladesh: Intensified crackdown as elections loom (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News December 18, 2018

Opposition leaders have been attacked, critics arrested, and websites blocked ahead of the 30 December elections in Bangladesh
Source: MEDIA FEED

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