Solidarity Center Report: Bangladesh Activists Free?

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Newspapers in Bangladesh this week reported that charges against two worker rights advocates, Kalpona Akter (right) and Babul Akter (left), will be dropped and that the search for the people who tortured and murdered labor leader Aminul Islam last year will receive new focus. The news follows the decision by the U.S. government to suspend preferential trade benefits with Bangladesh because of chronic and severe labor rights violations. Read more at the Solidarity Center. - photo by Tula Connell