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Five arrested over attack on coordinators’ car

Five suspects were arrested between Monday and Tuesday, in connection with an alleged robbery and attack on the vehicle carrying eight student leaders of the Student Movement Against Discrimination in Narayanganj’s Sonargaon upazila...

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Police uniform still strikes fear: Sarjis

Sarjis Alam, a coordinator of the Student Movement Against Discrimination and also general secretary of the July Shaheed Smriti Foundation, said that police uniforms continue to strike fear due to the...

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5 Mahila AL leaders arrested

The police arrested five Mohila Awami League leaders on Thursday in connection with an attack on an anti-discrimination student protest during the student-mass uprising in Dhaka’s Pallabi area.

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UAE releases 75 more expats arrested over July protest

The United Arab Emirates on Friday released 75 more Bangladeshi nationals who were arrested for holding protests in that country, expressing solidarity with the Student Movement Against Discrimination in July-August.

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RCC dismisses 159 employees

Rajshahi City Corporation dismissed its 159 master-roll employees and served show cause notices on 38 other officials and employees on various allegations including irregularities, corruption and taking a stand against student-led anti-discrimination movement...

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JL activist files case against Hasina, 186 other AL leaders

A Juba League activist has filed a case accusing 187 individuals, including several top Awami League leaders, of orchestrating and carrying out attacks during the anti-discrimination student movement and mass uprising in Chattogram...

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Political parties obstructing measures to ban AL: adviser

The adviser to the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan said that political parties were hindering efforts to ban the Awami League from doing politics on charge of mass killing during the recent anti-discrimination movement...

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Experts emphasise political consensus for constitution reforms

Leading legal and constitution experts and dignitaries on Saturday emphasised the necessity of political consensus for amending or rewriting the constitution, aligning it with people’s aspirations, particularly in the spirit of the July-August Students’ Movement Against Discrimination...

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Siblings of Abu Sayeed quit job of Bashundhara

Ramzan Ali and Abu Hossain, two brothers of Begum Rokeya University’s martyred student Abu Sayeed, who was shot dead by the police during the anti-discrimination student movement, left the jobs of Bashundhara Group...

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Anti-discrimination students clash in Sunamganj, 8 injured

A programme of the Sunamganj district chapter of the Student Movement Against Discrimination was foiled on Thursday as supporters of two factions of the platform clashed, leaving at least eight of the both groups injured...

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Chip giant TSMC sued for alleged discrimination

More than a dozen US-based employees of Taiwanese chipmaking giant TSMC have sued the company for apparent discrimination against non-Asian workers, according to a recent lawsuit...

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Anatomy of AL’s complaint to ICC

THE name ‘Bangladesh’ is not stranger to the International Criminal Court. It was one of the earliest signatories to the ICC Rome Statute and ratified the same on March 23, 2010. Publicly available information shows that the ICC received at least four communications containing complaints (institutionally known as Article 15 Communications or...

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Students form human chain demanding removal of Feni DC

Students on Thursday formed a human chain demanding removal of Feni deputy commissioner Musammat Shahina Akter, accusing her of being an ‘accomplice’ in killings during the anti-discrimination student movement in Feni.

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ICT sends former Savar ASP Shahidul to jail

The International Crimes Tribunal on Thursday ordered former additional superintendent of police Shahidul Islam, previously serving in Savar Circle, to be sent to Dhaka Central Jail over alleged crimes against humanity during the July-August student movement against discrimination...

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ICT sends ex-DMP DC Jashim to jail

The International Crimes Tribunal on Wednesday sent Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s former deputy commissioner for Mirpur Zone, Md Jashim Uddin Molla, to jail in a case of crimes against humanity during the July-August students’ movement against discrimination in the capital’s Mirpur area...

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Cultural activists urged to work for people’s aspirations

Cultural activists and July martyred Farhan Faiz Ratul’s relatives said on Tuesday that cultural activists should work for fulfilling people’s aspirations and creating a discrimination-free society, the key spirit of the student-led July-August mass uprising...

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Ban on political activities of AL, allies sought

Three key coordinators of the Students Movement Against Discrimination on Sunday filed two writ petitions seeking ban on political activities of the Awami League and its 10 allies...

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