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Article

7 Sep 2015

Author:
Jennifer Swann, www.takepart.com

Bangladesh lifts ban on a controversial movie about its garment industry

A garment worker's rescue from the rubble of a Bangladeshi factory collapse in 2013 offered a Hollywood ending to one of the world's worst industrial disasters...But when a local filmmaker decided to make a movie based on the miraculous survival story, a court banned its release in Bangladesh last month on the premise that it could negatively affect the country's labor force...a panel of four judges had a change of heart and agreed to lift the restriction...The reversal came at the insistence of the movie's producer, Shamima Akhter, who reasoned that Rana Plaza—named after the now infamous factory—had already been approved by Bangladesh's Film Censor Board. 

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Bangladesh: Four months on, families of victims of Rana Plaza building collapse still waiting for adequate compensation

Bangladesh: Survivors and families of victims of Rana Plaza building collapse began receiving compensation

Rana Plaza building collapse, April 2013