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People in fear as arrest drives on

Police continued the countrywide arrest drives as at least 150 more people were arrested on Wednesday in connection with cases filed on charges of violence during the student protests against the quota system in the civil service...

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Govt must honour and heed demands for justice

THE government is still showing an unwillingness to bring those responsible for the death of more than 200 students and people, including at least 16 children, mostly in indiscriminate police firing during the student protests to justice. The government is still continuing with the wholesale arrest of students and people in cases of ‘vandalism and violence’...

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72 citizens condemn wholesale arrests, torture in remand

Seventy two eminent citizens in a statement on Tuesday strongly condemned the wholesale arrests of students via block raids and the reported torture under the guise of remand following the countrywide student protests...

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Protesting students announce fresh programme across Bangladesh

The protesting students, who began their movement against discrimination in government job recruitment and the quota system reform, on Tuesday announced a fresh programme, the March for Justice, in all courts, campuses, and roads across the country on Wednesday.

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Nat’l mass inquiry commission a welcome development

IN A historically and politically significant move, a national mass inquiry commission to investigate the recent violent crackdown on student protests that sought reforms in public service job quota was announced on July 29 at a protest that lawyers organised in Dhaka. The commission is meant to establish the political and legal liability for...

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Protesting guardians face police obstruction at DMC

The police obstructed protesting guardians of students in front of Dhaka Medical College while they were going to Shagbagh on Tuesday morning to organise a rally protesting against casualties in the unrest centring quota reforms movement.

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Mourning day being observed today

Mourning day is being observed across Bangladesh on Tuesday for those who died during unrest centring around student protests for quota reform in the past week.

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Teachers demand release of students, campus reopening

Teachers from various public and private universities, including Dhaka University, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Jahangirnagar University, and Rajshahi University, on Monday held rallies and processions expressing solidarity with the student protests...

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Deaths on roads go unabated

Six years have passed since student protests for road safety gripped the nation in 2018 that led the government to make many promises and take several initiatives, but fatal...

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Repression and propaganda

THE wholesale arrest of dozens of students and hundreds of leaders, activists and supporters of opposition parties in cases filed in connection with violence and vandalism during the student protests for reforms in government job quota is another misstep of the government, the like of which forced a peaceful protest into a violent one...

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Reckless lies and deceit are no answers

THE only responsible government response to the violent policing of student protests seeking public job quota reform was to take responsibility for the death and injuries. But the government continues to spread reckless lies and deceive the public. The first information report that the Rangpur police filed about the death of a Begum Rokeya University...

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14 foreign missions in Dhaka seek sustainable solution to current unrest

Though a number of countries expressed their concern over the recent violence in Bangladesh, 14 foreign missions stationed in Dhaka have jointly written to foreign minister Hasan Mahmud seeking a sustainable solution to the issue to ensure a lasting peace in the country...

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Who decides, who defines who the ‘culprits’ are

THE prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s call on people to help identify the ‘culprits’ involved in the mayhem, born out of the peaceful student protests seeking reforms in civil service job reservations, makes sense. While she sought people’s support in holding the culprits to justice, she said that the culprits, in whatever corner they are staying...

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2 more injured victims die at DMCH

Two more critically injured people died on Friday while undergoing treatment at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, taking the death toll from the recent violence during...

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Diplomats confront FM over violence

Diplomats in Dhaka questioned the government’s deadly response to widespread student protests following a presentation by the foreign minister that laid the blame for recent violence at demonstrators’ feet, diplomatic officials said Monday...

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Many killed, hurt at home, workplaces during deadly protests in Bangladesh

Many ordinary people, including children, were killed and wounded at home and workplaces in allegedly indiscriminate firing by the security agencies on roads and in residential areas to disperse the clashing protesters from different locations in the capital as student protests for quota reform turned violent...

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