Until Sunday night, the sidewalks in front of the Jatiya Press Club in Bangladesh capital Dhaka were teeming with protesters pressing their demands for various causes, but since yesterday morning the area has been deserted.

Around 42 former Tazreen Fashions workers, more than 300 workers of A One BD Ltd, a few hundred independent Ebtedayee madrasa teachers, and aspiring primary school assistant teachers had been staging sit-ins there.

Yesterday at dawn however, according to the workers and teachers, police swooped on the demonstrators and attacked them with batons, tear gas shells and water cannons while they were asleep. Around 54 of the workers and teachers were injured in the attack, they said.

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