Court orders Bangladesh government to justify emergency rule

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Updated July 21, 2008 20:43:26

Bangladesh's High Court has ordered the government to show that its ongoing state of emergency is legal.

Presenter: Sonia Randhawa
Speaker: Iqbal Sobhan Chowdury, Editor of the Bangladesh Observer; Bangladesh Supreme Court lawyer Muhammad Mohsen Rashid; Dr Naima Haider, Deputy Attorney General, Bangladesh.

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