Police Thursday afternoon charged batons and sprayed water through canons on the protesting assistant teachers of government primary schools, whose appointments were cancelled by a court order, after they blocked the Shahbagh crossing, demanding their appointments.
Earlier on February 10, police used batons, water cannons and sound grenades to disperse the protesters, leaving some of them injured while police had picked up some protesters who were released later.
On Thursday, police charged batons and sprayed water through canons on the protesters to disperse them from the crossing during the blockade as part of their 鈥楲ong March to Dhaka鈥� programme.
Meanwhile, the Directorate of Primary Education on the day appealed against the High Court verdict on February 6 that declared illegal and scrapped the appointments of 6,531 assistant teachers in government primary schools.
The protesting recommended teachers vowed to continue their protests till their one-point demand is met, said a protester, Samia Yasmin, at press briefing in front of the National Museum in the evening.
Announcing a two-day ultimatum, Samia demanded that the court verdict must be overturned by Sunday, otherwise the protesters would organise a strong movement.
The protesters called a mass gathering in the capital for February 16 to press home the demand.
She also announced that the protesters meanwhile would continue the sit-in in front of the National Museum.
On Thursday, the protesters blocked the road at about 1:50pm at the Shahbagh crossing again on the eighth day of their protests.
Vehicular movement halted on the capital鈥檚 busy crossing due to the blockade and police used force on them at about 2:00pm.
Nowrin Zaman, one of the protesters, told 抖阴精品, 鈥榃e are fighting for our rights, but the government is not hearing us.鈥�
Another protester Bithi Rani alleged that police used force and charged batons on women protesters and detained over 10 protesters.
She also claimed that over five protesters were injured and took to the nearby hospitals for treatments.
鈥榃e will not leave the road till our one-point demand is met,鈥� said Bithi.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Ramna Division deputy commissioner Masud Alam told 抖阴精品 that police used minimum force, spraying water through canons, to disperse the protesters.
Shahbagh police station officer-in-charge Mohammad Khalid Mansoor said that about 12 to 13 protesters were picked up from the demonstration for interrogation.
The High Court on February 6 declared illegal and scrapped the November 20, 2024 appointment of 6,531 assistant teachers in government primary schools in Dhaka and Chattogram based on job quotas as per the 2019 recruitment rules.
The 2019 recruitment rules allow 60 per cent quota for women, 20 per cent for wards and 20 per cent for males in recruiting teachers for government primary schools.
They have been staging demonstrations since the court verdict on February 6.