Mass protests in Bangladesh – in pictures

Tens of thousands of protesters surged through the capital, Dhaka, after the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, resigned on Monday to end her 15 years in power

Main image: Protesters climb a statue of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Hasina’s father and Bangladesh’s first president, in Dhaka. Photograph: Syed Mahamudur Rahman/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock

  • Protesters celebrate at Parliament House after the news that the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, had resigned
    Protesters celebrate at Parliament House after the news that the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, had resigned

  • Anti-government protesters outside Parliament House. Hasina resigned and fled Bangladesh after hundreds of people were killed in a crackdown on demonstrations that had began as student protests against preferential job quotas, then swelled into a movement demanding her downfall
    Anti-government protesters outside Parliament House

  • Protesters gather at Parliament House
    Protesters gather at Parliament House

  • A defaced portrait of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh’s founder and the father of Hasina, at the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum
    A defaced portrait of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh’s founder and the father of Hasina, at the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum

  • Anti-government protesters celebrate in Shahbag, near the University of Dhaka
    Anti-government protesters celebrate in Shahbag, near the University of Dhaka

  • Anti-government protesters celebrate in Shahbag. The latest student-led protests began over a quota system they said disproportionately allocated government jobs to the descendants of freedom fighters in the 1971 independence war.
    Anti-government protesters celebrate in Shahbag near Dhaka university

  • A protester embraces a soldier in Shahbag
    A protester embraces a soldier in Shahbag

  • Anti-government protesters display Bangladesh’s national flag as they storm Hasina’s palace
    Anti-government protesters display Bangladesh’s national flag as they storm Hasina’s palace

  • Anti-government protesters storm the ousted prime minister palace. Hasina’s government was accused by rights groups of misusing state institutions to entrench its hold on power and stamp out dissent, including through the killing of opposition activists
    Anti-government protesters storm the ousted prime minister palace

  • People carry furniture and other items from the Ganabhaban, the prime minister’s official residence, after her resignation
    People carry furniture and other items from the Ganabhaban, the Prime Minister’s residence, after the resignation

  • A man dismantles a chandelier inside the Ganabhaban
    A man dismantles a chandelier inside the Ganabhaban

  • Men who stormed Hasina’s palace remove a painting
    Three men remove a landscape painting from the wall inside Hasina’s palace

  • People looting from the Ganabhaban. Hasina, 76, who had ruled Bangladesh since 2009, left by helicopter, a source told the Agence France-Presse news agency shortly after protesters had stormed her palace
    People loot a monitor, a computer and a duck from the Ganabhaban

  • A looter leaves the Ganabhaban with a ceiling fan
    A looter leaves the Ganabhaban with a ceiling fan

  • Protesters sit on a sofa at the Ganabhaban. Thousands raided the prime minister’s residence and were seen looting items even including vegetables from the gardens and live fish from the ponds in the grounds
    Protesters sit on a sofa at the Ganabhaban

  • Protesters look through a photo album taken from the house
    Protesters look through a photo album taken from the house

  • People swim in the lake inside the Ganabhaban grounds
    People swim in the lake inside the Ganabhaban grounds

  • Looters leave with furniture from the Ganabhaban
    Looters leave with furniture from the Ganabhaban

  • Anti-government protesters celebrate outside the Bangladesh parliament after hearing the news of Hasina’s resignation
    Anti-government protesters celebrate outside the Bangladesh parliament after hearing the news of Hasina’s resignation

  • Protesters climb a monument as they celebrate the news of Hasina’s resignation. Crowds had also ransacked Hasina’s family’s ancestral home turned museum where her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman – the country’s first president and independence leader – had been assassinated. They torched offices of the ruling party and two pro-government TV stations, forcing both off-air
    Protesters climb a monument as they celebrate the news of Hasina’s resignation

  • Protesters celebrate in the streets of Dhaka
    Protesters celebrate in the streets of Dhaka
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