Ganahatya O Nipiran Birodhi Shilpi Samaj, a platform for cultural activists, made a three-point demand expressing its solidarity with the ongoing quota reform movement and the students鈥� nine-point demand at a protest on Friday morning.
The protest was held in front of the Abahani Math at Dhanmondi in the capital.
At the protests, they slammed the government for killing innocent people, including students, and wholesale arrests, torture and harassment.
The activists rendered songs, recited poems and staged a performance braving inclement weather.
聽The performance titled Janatay Astha Sairatantre Anastha features demands of the students and firing at them.
Then artist Shehzad Chowdhury called names of those killed during the movement while all protesters there answered 鈥榩resent鈥�.
The performance was followed by a protest rally.聽聽聽聽聽聽
Artist, art critic and curator Mustafa Zaman, curator Shehzad Chowdhury, artist-curator Kazi Tahsin Agaz Apurbo, artist Suborna Morsheada ,photographer Imtiaz Alam Beg, Amirul Rajiv, Mehbuba Mahzabeen Hasan, singer-activist Arup Rahee, Bithi Ghosh, theatre activist Deepak Suman, among others, participated in the protest rally.
At the rally, the activists announced their three-point demand.
The demands included stopping mass arrests, withdrawal of cases against students as well as immediate release of the detained students, withdrawal of curfew and reopening of educational institutions ensuring safety, and resignation of the government taking responsibility for all killings, including the students.
Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigosti also organised a protest demanding investigation into all killings under the United Nations and justice for the students on Friday morning in the front of National Press Club in the capital.
It also said that the government tagged those demanding democratic and citizen鈥檚 rights as Razakar.
The event also included rendering songs and reciting poems.
Besides, Bikhubdho Kobi-Lekhok Samaj organised a protest on Friday morning in the front of Biswa Sahitya Kendro in the capital demanding justice for countrywide mass killings and torture in July.聽聽聽聽聽
