Sust Press Club's activities halted
The Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) authorities on Tuesday halted all activities of Sust Press Club till the formation of its executive committee under the vice chancellor, proctor and student adviser.
The decision came following demonstrations, including a human chain, processions and a half-hour blockade on the Sylhet-Sunamganj highway, on February 23 by several hundred students demanding arrest of one Abu Taher Md Sattar.
Sattar, correspondent of a local daily “Shyamol Sylhet†and Sust correspondent of The Daily Jankantha, on December 3 last year had illegally declared himself the executive committee's convener, said the demonstrators.
Using that post he recently issued a statement in local newspapers expressing solidarity with a national daily newspaper report of February 11 against the liberation war-related sculptures and Projonmo Chattar at Sust, said the demonstrators.
Satter, who gave his masters final exam from anthropology department two months ago and now introduces himself as Taher Tuton, is a member of the information and publication unit of Jamaat backed Islami Chhatra Shibir at Sust, they added.
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