ALL EYES ON JAHANGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY
ALL EYES ON DHAKA UNIVERSITY
They are attacking the students with rubber bullet & tearcells!
WE STAND WITH BANGLADESHI STUDENTS
ALL EYES ON BANGLADESH
#Save_Bangladeshi_students#StudentsUnderAttack
"Dozens of people have been injured by violence at student protests in Bangladesh. Police fired tear gas and charged with batons after fighting broke out between rival groups near Dhaka on Monday. Students have been protesting for two weeks, calling for an end to what they say are discriminatory quotas for public service jobs.
They say it favours supporters of the ruling party, and want a merit-based system instead."
#ALjazerra #bangladesh #QuotaReformProtest #StepDownHasina
#Bangladesh: @volker_turk urges authorities to engage w/ student protesters. All acts of violence & use of force, esp. resulting in loss of life, must be investigated & perpetrators held to account. Freedom of expression & peaceful assembly are fundamental human rights
Residents of the Kazla-Shanir Akhra area in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, have taken to the streets to express their solidarity with students who are demanding the abolition of the quota system.
🚨 Many female students were brutally attacked by armed Chhatra League goons, the student wing of ruling Awami League in #Bangladesh.
At least 6 students have been killed so far by police and Chhatra League goons and over 400 have been injured.
Students have been protesting against job quotas for coveted government jobs. The quota system reserves more than half of well-paid government jobs, for specific groups.
Critics say the system benefits children of pro-government groups who back Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
#QuotaReformProtest #QuotaReformMovement #SaveBangladeshiStudents
‼️Jahangirnagar University is under attack‼️
Translate-" the way policemen are torturing students is unexplainable. Idk if this happened in 1971 too. We can't even take our injured students to hospitals they are attacking ambulances. It's inhumane & we can't even help ourselves"
Bangladeshi authorities have used unlawful force against student protesters and failed to ensure their protection during the ongoing ‘Bangla-Blockade’ quota-reform protest across the country.
#ProtectTheProtest ✊
BANGLADESH 🇧🇩: @amnesty has analysed and authenticated witness testimonies, video and photographic evidence which confirms that the police used unlawful force against student protesters.
Further witness testimonies confirm the continuation of a multi-year pattern of violence against protesters, allegedly committed by members of the Bangladesh Chatra League (BCL), a group affiliated with the ruling party.
Our analysis finds that the shooting of student protestor Abu Sayed in Rangpur, was a seemingly intentional, unprovoked attack on an individual posing no threat to police officers, using ammunition designed for hunting which is extremely dangerous and unlawful for use in the policing of protests.
"We urgently call on the Government of Bangladesh to rehabilitate all those injured and ensure they receive proper medical treatment. The authorities must also ensure that all those engaged in the attacks on peaceful protesters are held to account, and that an impartial, independent, and swift investigation is conducted against these attackers as well as the police officers who have directly perpetrated or failed to prevent such breaches of the law" said Taqbir Huda, Regional Researcher for South Asia at Amnesty International.
#ProtectTheProtest
Read our full analysis here: https://t.co/kFfF3xcYTf