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Bangladesh: Country's 'closed' civic space status due to ongoing criminalisation of activists and protest crackdowns amid elections
The CIVICUS Monitor downgraded Bangladesh’s civic space to ‘closed’, its worst rating in December 2023. The downgrade is the result of a massive government crackdown on opposition politicians and independent critics in the run-up to national elections.