Sheikh Hasina served as Bangladesh's Prime Minister across five terms (1996-2001 and 2009-2024), leading the Awami League through a period of substantial econo…
A group of army officers assassinated Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with most of his family in a coup, ending Bangladesh's first parliamentary government. Sheikh Hasina an…
Elected Awami League president in absentia in 1981, Hasina returned to Bangladesh to lead the party under military rule, beginning nearly a decade of opposition politics…
Sustained mass protests led jointly by the Awami League and BNP forced President Ershad's resignation, ending nine years of military-backed rule and restoring competitiv…
Following a disputed February 1996 election that was boycotted, a caretaker government oversaw a fresh June election, which the Awami League won, making Hasina Prime Min…
Following a military-backed caretaker government and a period of Hasina's own detention on corruption charges later dropped, the December 2008 election delivered a lands…
The Awami League won a large majority, but Transparency International Bangladesh called the vote 'partially participatory, non-competitive, questionable, and faulty,' an…
The Awami League won a fourth consecutive term after the BNP and most opposition boycotted; turnout was 41.8%, the second-lowest on record, and the vote was described by…
Student-led protests over civil service job quotas escalated into a mass uprising after a violent security crackdown. The UN Human Rights Office estimated as many as 1,4…
Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal convicted Hasina in absentia of crimes against humanity related to the 2024 crackdown and sentenced her to death. This is a fi…
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party won 209 of 299 contested seats; Tarique Rahman, who returned from 17 years of exile in December 2025, was sworn in as Prime Minister on…
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