Police arrest Rahnuma, Baki; foil protest of Concerned Citizens

Police arrest Rahnuma, Baki; foil protest of Concerned Citizens

Dhaka, July 3 (Just News): Police on Monday foiled a protest by Concerned Citizens against recent attack on students and jobseekers demanding reformation of quota system in Bangladesh government jobs and arrested two of the organisers.

Dispersing the crowd, police took one of the organisers Baki Billah, a former president of Bangladesh Chhatra Union, onto a prison van. Writer and columnist Rahnuma Ahmed also got on the van to free Baki but the van left the scene carrying the two, said witnesses.

Police in riot gears attacked the protesters gathered in front of National Press Club for form a human chain and almost all the participants were manhandled by them.