{"id":82228,"date":"2025-08-04T16:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=82228"},"modified":"2025-08-04T16:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:14:11","slug":"former-pm-bangladesh-sheikh-hasinas-official-residence-converted-to-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/former-pm-bangladesh-sheikh-hasinas-official-residence-converted-to-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Former PM Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina&#8217;s official residence converted to museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA: Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/bangladesh-protesters-torch-ousted-pm-sheikh-hasinas-family-home\/\">Sheikh Hasina&#8217;s<\/a> official residence, Gun Bhawan, is now being converted into a museum as a reminder of her dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p>On August 5, 2024, student-led protests led to the end of Sheikh Hasina&#8217;s government. She fled to India by helicopter, and images of protesters waving flags and celebrating on the roof of her palace have become a symbol of the movement.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, the country is still in political turmoil, but officials hope the museum will serve as a lesson for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>Slogans and graffiti on the palace walls have been left intact, with phrases like &#8220;We want freedom,&#8221; &#8220;We want justice,&#8221; and &#8220;Dictator.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Hasina&#8217;s rule has been marked by serious human rights abuses, including the arrest and extrajudicial killing of political opponents.<\/p>\n<p>According to the United Nations, around 1,400 people were killed between July and August 2024 in her attempt to hold on to power.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Hasina, 77, has not appeared in court despite being summoned in criminal cases against her and denies the charges.<\/p>\n<p>Elections are expected in early 2026 under the leadership of a caretaker government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA: Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina&#8217;s official residence, Gun Bhawan, is now being converted into a museum as a reminder of her dictatorship. On August 5, 2024, student-led protests led to the end of Sheikh Hasina&#8217;s government. She fled to India by helicopter, and images of protesters waving flags and celebrating on the roof [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":82229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30513,19721],"class_list":["post-82228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-museum","tag-sheikh-hasina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82230,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82228\/revisions\/82230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}