Power Imbalance

Mariam Became a Public Scandal Before She Became a Public Safety Question

Nineteen-year-old Mariam Khatun spent months being discussed as a powerful MP’s “second wife” after private footage went viral. After her death and an ongoing abetment investigation, Bangladesh should examine a harder question: when a young woman is caught inside a relationship with a far more powerful man, who asks what she wants, whether she feels safe and whether she can speak freely