Bangladeshi Police Accused of Filing False Cases as Election Nears

As Bangladesh moves toward the next national elections - likely to be held in January - opposition political parties are accusing the country's security forces of an escalation in repression.

Hundreds of thousands of leaders, activists and supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the country's largest opposition party, have faced "fictitious" charges of violence, party leaders allege.

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