The students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) continued their protest on Monday (29 July) demanding the unconditional release of all those detained of the quota reform movement including the coordinators.
On Monday at 4 pm, they brought out a procession from the road adjacent to the central Shaheed Minar of the university. The procession passed through the main road to the university and ended with a short rally at the premises of Shaheed Minar.
Despite vacant dormitories, around a hundred students joined the protest under the banner of Anti-discrimination Student Movement. A few teachers of the university also expressed their solidarity to the protest.
They also placed 4-point demand. These are: Unconditional release of JU student Arif Sohel, one of the coordinators of the anti-discrimination student movement, prosecution of the brutal torture of the central coordinators, immediate prosecution of those involved in the killing of students, and stop mass arrests against ordinary students.
Zahidul Islam, a coordinator of the movement JU branch, said in the rally, "We have seen that genocide was carried out by shutting down the Internet in Kashmir and Palestine, now the dictatorial government also shut down the Internet and carried out genocide in Bangladesh."
He also rejected the statement of the coordinators that was released from DB custody on Sunday, and said the statement was extracted through coercion.
"We demand the release of all the coordinators first, then we will take a collective decision," he added.
Sohagi Samia, said, "This dictator government has attacked ordinary students by using its lewd cadre Chhatra League. Wanted to resist with armed forces. This movement is the people's movement. No despotic ruler can survive in a country where students can stand in front of the Machete of Chhatra League and protest in front of police bullets.
Professor Mohammad Golam Rabbani of the history department said in the rally, "Students and ordinary people who were agitating for quota reform across the country have been killed. As a teacher, I want justice for them. I want students to sleep safely, stay safe. Let them come back to the university, come back to class.'
Meanwhile, the teachers of different departments of the university took part in the demonstration expressing solidarity with the students' movement.
The teachers are Professor Mohammad Mafrohi Sattar of the University's Pharmacy Department, Professor Shamima Sultana of the Bengali Department, Professor Jamal Uddin of the Department of Environmental Science, Associate Professor of Geography and Environment Department Mohammad Rezaul Rakib and others.
