New protests against the government erupted in the Bengali capital city, Dhaka on Monday.
Al-Jazeera news reports, Bangladesh’s main opposition party along with their seventeen allies staged the protest. They are also calling for a nationwide strike.
The protestors are demanding for the release of more than one-hundred-fifty of their members arrested during previous uprisings.
There have been on and off-again protests against the ruling government since the arrest of the leader if the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party in January.
Most often protestors would clash with government loyalists.
Thirty people were injured during Monday’s protest.
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