Tags: Bangladesh

At least 12 dead

1,127 died

Upward of 1,000 bodies recovered

Death toll has passed 1,000

Separate from the more than 900 dead from another factory collapse

Collapsed on April 24, bodies still being recovered

Declined to provide any evidence for claim; AFP reports 38 people killed in street violence

Islamic extremists upset government's said country governed by liberal, secular laws

Islamic activists want a strict anti-blasphemy law, which the PM rejected on the grounds the country is governed by liberal, secular laws

Protesters want to ban blasphemy, hang atheists

More trapped in the rubble of a building that held 2,000

Five arrested this month

Sheikh Hasina thinks the laws already in place are good enough

Position largely ceremonial

Including 3 police officers

For role in murders, torture, rapes during 1971 war of independence

Clashes with police over war crimes trials

Objected to the costs of improvement, according to meeting minutes

More than 100 killed in deadly weekend blaze