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MUMBAI, India -- The police in Bangladesh have arrested three garment industry labor leaders and 18 other people on charges that they organized and participated in violent protests last month. International advocacy groups like Human Rights Watch and the International Labor Rights Forum have criticized the arrests, calling them a tactic for intimidating workers in a powerful industry that supplies Western retailers like Wal-Mart Stores and H&M. The protesters were angry over a recent increase in the minimum wage, calling it inadequate. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article informs that engineer Abdur Razzaque Khan has been arrested by Bangladeshi police on May 2, 2013 on charges of deadly collapse of the Rana Plaza building.

DHAKA, Bangladesh -- A labor activist who was arrested two years ago for his role in protests against low wages in Bangladesh's garment industry was found murdered outside this city last week, labor rights advocates and the police said on Monday. The killing of the activist, Aminul Islam, marks a morbid turn in the often tense relations between labor groups, on one side, and Bangladesh's extensive garment industry, which makes clothes for Western companies like Walmart, Tommy Hilfiger and H&M. In 2010, Mr. Islam, a former textile factory worker, was arrested and, he and other labor activists said, was tortured by the police and intelligence services. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The army-backed caretaker government in Bangladesh that has netted hundreds of politicians and businesspeople in a yearlong anticorruption drive has now rounded up nearly 12,000 people in what it calls a crusade against crime. Political parties have denounced the roundup, carried out in recent days, as a ploy to clamp down on political activity as Bangladesh prepares for national elections in December. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents information about the arrest of several former ministers in Bangladesh. In a nation-wide crackdown on corruption, several former ministers from leading political parties were arrested on February 4, 2007. The arrest was part of the campaign of the interim government to cleanse politics of crime and corruption. The interim government is being supported by the country's army. The arrested former ministers include Mohammad Nasim and Nazmul Huda.