Bangladesh I The students The organization turned violent on Monday against Kote’s quota in government jobs protest Announced suspension for 48 hours.
According to the French news agency AFP, Naheed Islam, the leader of the student organization ‘Students Against Discrimination’, which organized the protests, said, “We are suspending the protests for 48 hours.”
He said that ‘We demand that the government should lift the curfew during this period, restore the internet and stop targeting the student protesters.’
On the other hand, the police said on Monday that more than five hundred people, including some opposition leaders, have been arrested since the start of the student protest.
Dhaka “At least 532 people, including BNP leaders, have been arrested since the unrest began,” Metropolitan Police spokesman Farooq Hussain told AFP.
He was referring to the opposition Bangladesh National Party.
He further said that BNP’s third senior leader Amir Khusro Mahmood Chaudhry and its spokesman Roohul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed are also among the detained persons.
He added that ‘former captain of national football team and senior leader of BNP Aminul Haque has also been detained.’
Hussain said that the general secretary of Jamaat-e-Islami, the largest Islamic party of the country, Mia Ghulam Parwar has also been arrested.
He said that during the unrest in the capital, at least three police personnel lost their lives and nearly 1,000 were injured, of which at least 60 are in critical condition.
“Several hundred BNP leaders and activists have been arrested across the country in the last few days,” BNP spokesman AKM Wahidul Zaman told AFP.
On the other hand, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has sentenced 57 Bangladeshi immigrants to long prison terms for protesting against their government.
Three Bangladeshi migrants were sentenced to life in prison, 53 others to 10 years and one to 11 years for allegedly participating in the protests, the UAE’s official WAM news agency reported on Monday. has been told.
Protesters against quotas in government jobs hold placards during a protest at the Dhaka University campus on July 16, 2024 in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
According to the news agency, the defendants “gathered on several streets of the United Arab Emirates on Friday and incited riots.” He will be deported after completing his prison sentence.
WAM said the charges against the Bangladeshi nationals followed an expedited investigation that was ordered on Friday.
An eyewitness confirmed that the migrants gathered on several streets in the UAE and organized a mass march against the Bangladeshi government’s decisions.
Bangladesh has been rocked by protests this month against quotas in government jobs, which critics say will benefit supporters of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year authoritarian rule.
The near-daily protests turned violent last week, killing 163 people.
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According to Reuters, a group of students protesting against the controversial quota system in Bangladesh announced on Sunday that they will continue their protest despite a Supreme Court ruling partially granting their demands.
Earlier, Bangladesh’s top court on Sunday decided to roll back the controversial quota system for civil service job applicants but stopped short of ordering its complete abolition.
Bangladesh Attorney General AM Aminuddin said on Sunday that while quashing a lower court order, the Supreme Court’s Appellate Bench directed that 93 percent of government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit rather than quota.
The Attorney General said that the protesting students have said that they are not involved in the violence and “the government will find those responsible for the incidents of violence.”
The Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina In 2018, the government abolished the quota system in jobs.
But a lower court last month reinstated it, setting an overall quota of 56 percent, sparking protests.
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