Campus tensions flare over July Uprising anniversary procession; additional police deployed

Activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) and Islami Chhatra Shibir clashed at three educational institutions in Dhaka yesterday, a day after a similar incident in Rangpur, reviving fears of a return to frequent and large-scale campus violence.

Several injured as rival groups allegedly battle for control of residential halls

Retaliation is not justice. A student union is not a mobile court. Its elected representatives are not police officers, prosecutors, or executioners.

Both organisations allege their activists were assaulted during a dispute over an investigation meeting

Shibir alleges attempts being made to pin the blame on the student organisation for attacks on the media houses

Along with winning the seventh Chittagong University Central Students’ Union (Cucsu) election, the Islami Chhatra Shibir-backed panel Shompritir Shikkharthi Jote also bagged most votes in the hall union polls.

Those who won the Ducsu election on Tuesday have set a new precedent.

Tensions between Shibir activists and protesting student organisations escalated throughout the day and continued until 10:00pm yesterday

It was yet another attempt by Jamaat's student cadres to test the waters

Photos of convicted war criminals were removed from an exhibition organised by Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir at Dhaka University yesterday, following protests from students who called the display “an affront to the spirit of the Liberation War.”

Central members' council of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, started at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka this morning

This is the first time Shibir is going to hold the council publicly after 2010

Students at Jahangirnagar University (JU) staged a midnight protest, declaring the Islami Chhatra Shibir unwanted on campus after the group announced its president, secretary general, and publicity secretary for the JU unit last night.

A press release demanding a healthy environment for student politics was signed by its publicity secretary Abdullah Al Mamun Saki, a philosophy student.

After around three and a half decades, Islami Chhatra Shibir has come out on Dhaka University campus by revealing the identities of its two top leaders, touching off public debate online and offline.

Just a day after the fall of the Awami League government, the leaders and activists of the student wing of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami – Islami Chhatra Shibir -- took control of two colleges in Chattogram

Jamaat-e-Islami remains the largest Islamic fundamentalist party in Bangladesh.

Two policemen, including Sylhet Kotwali Police Station Officer-in-Charge, were injured after activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir attacked them in Sylhet city this afternoon.

A Bangladesh Chhatra League leader is killed and at least 10 activists injured in an attack reportedly carried out by Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, in Noakhali’s Begumganj upazila.