Dhaka, July 9 (Just News): Protest continued yesterday against the recent attacks on some quota reform activists by Chhatra League men.
The protesters also demanded the immediate release of the arrested quota reformists and called upon the government to end repression on the demonstrators seeking quota reforms in civil service.
On the Dhaka University campus, teachers and students of law department formed a human chain near the Central Shaheed Minar, demanding immediate release of a student of the department Tarikul Islam Tarek and withdrawal of a case against him.
Around 200 students and teachers as well as Tarikul's father Shafiqul Islam participated in the programme in front of the Law Faculty building.
On July 2, a group of BCL men beat up Tarikul on the premises of Dhaka University Central Library and handed him over to police.
He was later shown arrested in a case filed over vandalising the VC's residence.
Expressing solidarity with the demand, chairperson of the department Prof Naima Haque said, “Tariqul is a student of this department, we want his release”.
Prof Asif Nazrul, another teacher of the department, said, “Chhatra League men assaulted Tarikul and handed him over to the police for taking part in a logical protest. He is being deprived of human rights ...
“He was shown arrested in an old case, which is totally irrelevant,” he said.
He demanded an end to BCL attacks as well as police torture on quota reform activists across the country.
Shafiqul alleged that the case was filed against his son only to harass him.
“My son did not commit any crime. He went to the central library to study, but Chhatra League leaders picked him up from there and later handed him over to the police,” he said.
One of Tarikul's classmate Fatema Tahsin said, “Tarek is our classmate and we would not sit for class and examination without him.”
(Justnews/ys/2310hr)
