Bangladesh chief justice resigns under pressure from protests
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00:00They are chanting slogans against the Chief Justice of Bangladesh.
00:08Protesters gave Obaidul Hassan an ultimatum to quit and called for five other judges to
00:12do so as well.
00:15He and the others did tender their resignations.
00:18The Chief Justice stepped down as demonstrators took their campaign to the premises of the
00:22Supreme Court.
00:26The Chief Justice kept supporting the government despite all the injustices.
00:29He even stood against us.
00:31He was against the protesters.
00:33Now that he has fled, he has resigned, we are so happy.
00:37We don't accept any sort of fascist regime.
00:41So finally we have already shown that the Chief Justice has already resigned because
00:47of our movement.
00:48Obaidul Hassan was appointed to the helm of the Supreme Court last year and is seen as
00:52a loyalist to the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
00:56His departure follows the resignation on Friday of the Central Bank Governor Abdur
01:00Ruf Talukder, who resigned amid mounting pressure on top officials.
01:06The country's interim Prime Minister, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohammed Yunus,
01:10called for calm and national unity.
01:13He did so during his visit to pay his respects to the family of the first student shot dead
01:17by police at the start of the crackdown on student protests.
01:21Yunus was sworn in on Thursday.
01:23The interim government includes two student protest leaders.
01:28Protests by students began in July against a quota system for government jobs that critics
01:33said benefited people with connections to Sheikh Hasina's party.
01:37After 15 years in power, she resigned and fled to India on Monday.