Responding to claims of corruption on the electoral commission and threats by an alliance of political parties to boycott Jan. 22 election, President Iajuddin Ahmed declares a state of emergency & cancels elections
Historical records for Bangladesh in 2007, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Responding to claims of corruption on the electoral commission and threats by an alliance of political parties to boycott Jan. 22 election, President Iajuddin Ahmed declares a state of emergency & cancels elections
Responding to claims of corruption on the electoral commission and threats by an alliance of political parties to boycott Jan. 22 election, President Iajuddin Ahmed declares a state of emergency & cancels elections
Bangladeshs military-backed emergency Government exile opposition leader Sheikh Hasina Wajed as it steps up a massive purge of the crisis-wracked countrys political hierarchy
Bangladeshs military-backed emergency Government exile opposition leader Sheikh Hasina Wajed as it steps up a massive purge of the crisis-wracked countrys political hierarchy
Bangladesh issues an arrest warrant for opposition leader Sheikh Hasina Wajed as a plane arrives to take her arch rival, the countrys last Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, into exile in Saudi Arabia
Bangladesh issues an arrest warrant for opposition leader Sheikh Hasina Wajed as a plane arrives to take her arch rival, the countrys last Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, into exile in Saudi Arabia
Bangladesh issues an arrest warrant for opposition leader Sheikh Hasina Wajed as a plane arrives to take her arch rival, the countrys last Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, into exile in Saudi Arabia
Bangladeshs emergency Government backtracks on plans to exile two feuding former Prime Minister's but appears to threaten the women with corruption charges if they stay in the country
Bangladeshs emergency Government backtracks on plans to exile two feuding former Prime Minister's but appears to threaten the women with corruption charges if they stay in the country
Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed is greeted by tens of thousands of supporters as she returns to Bangladesh after the military-backed Government abandon plans to force her into exile
Bangladesh police arrest former PM Sheikh Hasina on extortion charges
Former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina is charged with extortion for allegedly demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars from a company seeking to build a power station
Detained former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina Wajed is charged in a new graft case as part of the emergency Governments corruption crackdown
Former Bangladesh PM Khaleda Zia and one of her sons are arrested on charges of corruption and misuse of power
Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, a property tycoon and one of Bangladeshs richest men, his wife and three sons are sentenced in absentia to five years each in jail as part of a Government anti-corruption drive
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