3 July 2018

Press Statement

Odhikar would like to express its immense concern and condemnation regarding the horrificOdhikar would like to express its immense concern and condemnation regarding the horrificattacks by the Chhatra League leaders have unleashed on students protesting for the reformationof the quota on government jobs, since 30 June 2018; along with the police barring protestorsfrom holding protest programmes on this issue, the police picking up a protestor of theMovement and disappearing him for one day - before showing him as arrested; and arrestinganother protestor and taking him into remand. Even though such attacks are being carried out onstudents from Dhaka University and other universities, Odhikar condemns the fact that theperpatrators have not been brought to justice and the government chooses to remain silentregarding this matter.