Bangladesh: student leader detained, others prevented to stage planned gathering
Event- Country
- Bangladesh
- Initial Date
- Jul 17, 2024
- Event Description
Police have detained a former leader of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) from the campus as they prevented quota reform seekers from gathering in front of the Raju Sculpture.
DUCSU’s former social welfare affairs secretary Akhtar Hossain was apprehended after an altercation.
Quota protesters were scheduled to hold a funeral in absentia on Wednesday (July 17) for those killed in Tuesday’s (July 16) clashes. Police barricaded the streets near the TSC.
Around 3pm, Hossain came to the spot and protested against police presence on the campus. He had an altercation with the policemen and after some time, he lied on the ground there. Police detained him and took him away in a prison van.
Policemen also had a melee with journalists. They hurled sound grenades at that time.
Meanwhile, police fired rubber bullets, lobbed tear gas shells and sound grenades when they fought a pitched battle against students hurling brick chips on the Dhaka University campus just after 4pm.
- Impact of Event
- 2
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Other (e.g. undefined, organisation, community)
- Violation
- (Arbitrary) Arrest and Detention
- Violence (physical)
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of expression
- Offline
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- Right to liberty and security
- Right to Protest
- HRD
- Media Worker
- Student
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 23.76975103712368
Longitude: 90.40025288027444
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 17 July 2024, Akhtar Hossain, student and former leader of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU, was detained by the police, who violently prevented him and other students from staging a funeral of the fellow students deceased the day before in Dhaka, Bangladesh.