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At least two people, including a policeman, were killed in clashes as fresh protests erupted in Bangladesh on Friday. In Dhaka, thousand of people took to the streets to demand justice for police killings and other atrocities committed during last month’s student-led demonstrations, which had called for reforms in the government’s job quota system. The protesters chanted slogans like “down with the autocrat,” accusing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government of carrying out the killings and enforced disappearance of many activists. In the city of Khulna, some 130 kilometres south-west of the …

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