Buet student Abrar Fahad

Abrar Fahad’s younger brother decides to get admission in Buet

Abrar Faiyaj – younger brother of Abrar Fahad who was beaten to death by some Chhatra League activists at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology’s (Buet) Sher-e-Bangla Hall on October 7, 2019 – has decided to enrol in the university.

Abrar murder: prosecution concludes arguments against all 25 accused

The prosecution has completed placing arguments in support of framing charges against all 25 accused in a case filed over the murder of Buet student Abrar Fahad last year.

Three special public prosecutors appointed in Abrar murder case

The government has appointed three special public prosecutors (PPs) headed by Advocate Mosharraf Hossain Kajol for conducting the murder case of Buet student Abrar Fahad Rabbi on behalf of the state before the trial court.

Charge sheet on Abrar murder by this week: Monirul

Charge sheet in the Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case will be submitted by the current week, Monirul Islam, additional commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) says.

Abrar Murder: ‘No link with freedom of expression’

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has told the UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh Mia Seppo that the killing of Buet student Abrar Fahad had nothing to do with freedom of expression.

Charge sheet next month

Buet student and BCL activist Mujahidur Rahman Mujahid, an accused in Abrar Fahad murder case, yesterday confessed to a magistrate that he along with several others hit Abrar with a skipping rope.

Anik Sarker beat up Abrar with cricket stump in 2 phases

Anik Sarker, who was the most ruthless among the attackers of Buet student Abrar Fahad, gives his confessional statement before a magistrate.

Abrar murder: One more accused held in Dhaka

Police have arrested another accused of a case filed in connection with killing of Buet student Abrar Fahad, who was brutally killed allegedly by Bangladesh Chhara League on Monday night.

Horrific accounts of cruelty

Meftahul Islam Zion, a key accused in Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case, yesterday told a magistrate how Abrar was beaten to death with cricket stumps and skipping rope by him and some other Chhatra League leaders and activists.

October 8, 2019
October 8, 2019

This kind of violence is unheard of

Dhaka University Professor Emeritus Serajul Islam Choudhury yesterday said the brutal suppression of dissent at universities is alarming because these institutions are supposed to nurture free speech.

October 8, 2019
October 8, 2019

I don’t know how, bring back my son

“Bring back my son alive.” This is all Rokeya Khatun could say as her relatives tried to console her in her home on Kushtia town’s PTTI Road.

October 8, 2019
October 8, 2019

From the archives: 2011 -- a room of horror

Room 2011. It is the second last room located on the first floor of the five-storey Sher-e-Bangla Hall at Buet. Although innocuous-looking from the outside, the room is known among the students to be a torture cell and a party hub.

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