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Bangladesh teeters between hope and deadlock a year after Hasina’s fall

Sinthia Mehrin Sokal being carried by fellow students after she was hit on the head during protests against then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on July 15, 2024 [Courtesy of Sinthia Mehrin Sokal]

Dhaka, Bangladesh – Sinthia Mehrin Sokal remembers the blow to her head on July 15 last year when she, along with thousands of fellow students, marched during a protest against a controversial quota system in government jobs in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka.

The attack by an activist belonging to the student wing of the then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League party left Sokal – a final-year student of criminology at the University of Dhaka – with 10 stitches and temporary memory loss.

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