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Editorial: An autocratic crackdown saw the main opposition party boycott the poll, rendering the victory hollow for the current prime minister

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina secured her 5th term on January 7 in a low-turnout election. Let's look at what happened online.

The 76-year-old wins fourth straight term in controversial election boycotted by opposition and marked by low turnout.

Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has just been re-elected for a fifth term in a vote boycotted by the opposition. Since she came to power in 2009 at least 600 people have disappeared, including opposition activists, businessmen and members of the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, according to…

Discover the creative triumph of Sheikh Hasina as she secures a fourth consecutive term as Prime Minister of Bangladesh amidst controversy and concerns. Ex...

Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has won a fifth term in power with her party taking three-quarters of seats in parliament, election officials said Monday after polls boycotted by the opposition as a "sham".

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Questions raised over official turnout of 40 percent after opposition boycott call and reports of empty polling centres.

Sheikh Hasina once helped rescue Bangladesh from military rule, but her time in power has seen the mass arrest of her political opponents and human rights sanctions against her security forces.