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Download PDF Dhaka University (DU) teachers, students and family members of the detained teachers and a student of the university yesterday continued their demonstration demanding their “unconditional release with dignity”.
They demanded their release before January 18, when the deadline set by the Students Against Repression, a students’ platform, would end.
However, there was no noticeable sign of any government move to release the DU detainees till yesterday, even though Education Adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman on Sunday night said the detainees would be freed “within the next few days, whatever the court verdict is”.
DU Vice-chancellor Prof SMA Faiz yesterday said the teachers and the student are now very close to being released.
Yesterday like previous days, the students of DU under the banner of Students Against Repression demonstrated on campus with a two-hour class abstention, a solidarity rally, collecting signatures from students, a silent procession, staging a play and painting graffiti on campus streets.
At the rally, students, a number of teachers, family members of detained teachers and the student expressed their deep concern over the issue.
Arrestee Manobendra Dev’s mother expressed hope that government would withdraw all cases and unconditionally release all detained teachers and students.
Kabery Gayen, a teacher, expressed her deep concern over the present situation on campus saying, “The overall situation might go out of control if the detainees were not released.”
Prof MM Akash, Prof M Akhtaruzzaman, Prof Kajol Bandopadhyay, Prof KM Saad Uddin, Prof Helal Uddin Arefin, Prof KM Monwar Uddin, Prof Anwar Hossain, Prof Mezbah Kamal, Prof Mashiur Rahman, Robaet Ferdous, Zinat Huda, Dishani Chakravorty, Kajol Krishna Banerjee were present at the rally.
Prof Serajul Islam Choudhury, Prof Anu Muhammad, Salimullah Khan, Ahmed Kamal, Ashfari Hossain expressed solidarity with the demonstrating students over telephone.
The students will also observe a two-hour abstention from class today.
DUTA MEETING
Dhaka University Teachers’ Association (Duta) will hold a requisitioned meeting today to decide what they can do to have the teachers and the student released and discuss the stalled election of the executive committee for 2008.
Teachers belonging to pro-Awami League Blue Panel and left-leaning Pink Panel called for the meeting as Duta’s acting president and general secretary “failed to make any decision in this regard”.
The pro-BNP-Jamaat White Panel termed the meeting unconstitutional and decided not to join.
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