Protest for Safe Roads in Bangladesh
Student Protest: 3 more students get bail
Three more students involved with the recent student protest and quota reform movement have been given bail in cases filed with different police stations in Dhaka.
Road Safety Protest: Bail still eludes 22 students
For the entire two hours in the courtroom, Masad Mortuza Bin Ahad remained silent, even when the magistrate asked him some questions. He gave only blank looks, as he sat on a chair placed in the dock.
Road Safety Movement: Halt 'arbitrary arrests', try attackers
Human Rights Watch yesterday urged the Bangladesh government to halt “arbitrary arrests, prosecute those involved in violent attacks, and immediately and unconditionally release people it has thrown in jail just for speaking out”.
Safe road demo: Ershad urges PM for release of arrested students
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad urges Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to release the students who have been arrested during their recent protests in Dhaka for safe roads.
Road Safety Protest: No bail for 22 pvt univ students
A Dhaka court yesterday denied bail to the 22 private university students who were arrested in two separate cases filed over vandalism and attacks on policemen during the road safety movement.
Stop violence on protesters, journalists
The European Union has called for an immediate end to “disproportionate violence” against peaceful student protesters and journalists. It also demanded an investigation for holding the perpetrators accountable.
Noted photojournalist, friend of Bangladesh Raghu Rai urges PM to not punish Shahidul
Noted Indian photojournalist and a friend of Bangladesh Liberation War Raghu Rai urges Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to not punish photographer Shahidul Alam in an open letter published on Facebook.
Proposed Road Transport Bill a jugglery: BNP
BNP terms the proposed Road Transport Bill as jugglery saying that it will not be able to ensure safety and security of people on the roads.
37 students released from Tejgaon Police Station
Police have released 37 students, who were detained during student protest yesterday, into the custody of their parents.
Quader defends AL, says students attacked first
Awami League General Secretary has defended the assault carried out on general university students saying it was the students who attacked first.
Safe roads: US embassy condemns attacks on student protesters
The US Embassy in Dhaka condemns the attacks on the students protesting across the country demanding safe roads and justice for the death of their two peers in a road accident at the capital’s Airport Road.
Transport workers stage demo on Dhaka-Ctg highway
Transport workers in Chittagong block the Dhaka-Chittagong highway for two hours and attack drivers plying vehicles following the recent suspension on plying of public transports called by the bus owners and workers in different districts.
Protesting university students attacked on Green Road
A group of miscreants attack students of University of Asia Pacific who took position on the road opposite to Green Super Market expressing solidarity with school students demanding safer roads since July 29.
Safe Road: DU students block Shahbagh demanding Shahjahan’s resignation
General students of Dhaka University (DU) take to the streets and block Shahbagh intersection for one and half hour protesting the attacks on students by law enforcers and alleged activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League at Jigatola in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi.
Public sufferings mount as bus ‘strike’ continue for 3rd day
Long-route bus service remain suspended for the third consecutive day as an apparent counter-programme against the ongoing student movement for safe road, causing immense sufferings to people across the country.
Sufferings mount on long routes
Transport owners say bus services will remain suspended indefinitely across the country citing safety reasons due to the ongoing student movement demanding safe roads.
BCL in its element
At least 20-25 students are injured as alleged activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and police launch an attack on the student protesters at Dhanmondi 3 near Jigatola in Dhaka.
Road Accidents: Two more students killed
Two college students were killed in separate road accidents in Gazipur and Narsingdi yesterday amid the countrywide student agitation for road safety.
Group of student protesters visit AL president's office
Amid rumours of death, detention and abuse of students at Awami League President Sheikh Hasina's Dhanmondi political office, a group of protesters visited the office yesterday and found no evidence of the claims.