At least 50,000 people have taken part in the biggest demonstration yet in Bangladesh over French President Emmanuel Macron’s defence of the right to publish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
A rally that started at Bangladesh’s biggest mosque was stopped from getting close to the French embassy where security has been stepped up.
Police estimated some 50,000 people took part in the protest, which demanded a boycott of French products, while organisers said there were more than 100,000.
Protesters chanted “No defamation of the Prophet Mohammed” and burned an effigy of the French leader.
