Global clothing brands including H&M, Primark and Tesco won a Bangladesh Supreme Court case Sunday, allowing international factory safety monitors to operate in the country which has had a string of industrial disasters.

Bangladesh factory safety monitors get court extension

An Appellate Division bench, led by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, would hear the appeals today

Bangladesh Supreme Court to hear petitions against Khaleda Zia

They say the Lady Justice sculpture outside the top court violates the spirit of Bangladesh's fabric as it resembles a Greek goddess

Bangladesh: Islamist parties demand removal of supreme court sculpture

Five others were given life imprisonment. The suspects from Jamalpur region were accused of murder, abduction, torture and loot

Bangladesh: Three awarded death penalty for 1971 war crimes