First Female Speaker Of Bangladesh Parliament Arrested On Charges Of Violence During 2024 Uprising

Dhaka: Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, the first woman to become speaker of the Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad, was arrested by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Tuesday. Shirin was arrested by the police’s Detective Branch (DB) in connection with a case filed at Lalbagh police station over incidents of violence and vandalism during the mass uprising, as reported by Prothom Alo. She had…