Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Raises Travel Alert Level for Bangladesh

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has raised the travel alert level for Bangladesh to ‘Level 2: Avoid Non-Essential Travel’.

This results in the entire country being under a ‘Level 2’ travel alert. The Chittagong Hill Tracts region (Khagrachhari District, Rangamati District, and Bandarban District) had already been issued a ‘Level 2’ alert.

In Bangladesh, the constitutional court’s decision in June this year, declaring the abolition of the quota system in the 2018 civil service recruitment as unconstitutional, sparked the initiation of demonstrations and traffic blockades by student groups demanding systemic reforms across the country from July 2nd onwards. The Bangladeshi government issued a curfew on July 19th, resulting in an extremely unstable communication situation, excluding telephones. From 2019 to 2020, sporadic bomb attacks targeting security forces were recorded, and in 2023, a new extremist organization based in Bangladesh was identified, continuing the threat of terrorism and prompting heightened caution.

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