Student Protest for Safe Roads in Bangladesh
'Inciting Violence': Police gather details of 100 social media accounts
Police have gathered details about a hundred social media accounts which incited violence centring on the student movement for road safety by spreading provocative contents and going live on Facebook, said a top DMP official.
11 August 2018
Teachers want students freed; Nahid cites law
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid says the law will take its own course against students who have been booked during the student protests in Dhaka.
8 August 2018
Students sued, not attackers
Leaving out the alleged ruling party men involved in attacks on road safety demonstrators and journalists, police have made students accused in cases filed over the last few days' violence in the capital.
7 August 2018
'Spreading Rumour': Four held, 16 others sued
Law enforcers have arrested four more people from the capital for allegedly trying to create unrest by spreading rumours on social media instigating the student protest.
6 August 2018
Long lines at BRTA
A huge number of people are turning up at Bangladesh Road Transport Authority's (BRTA) office in Mirpur for driving licences and fitness certificates, creating a huge gathering there, with agitating students checking vehicle documents last few days.
5 August 2018
Nawshaba remanded over fanning rumour
Actress Quazi Nawshaba Ahmed, who iss held for spreading rumour on Facebook, is remanded in a case filed under the ICT Act.
5 August 2018
Safe Road: DU students block Shahbagh demanding Shahjahan’s resignation
General students of Dhaka University (DU) take to the streets and block Shahbagh intersection for one and half hour protesting the attacks on students by law enforcers and alleged activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League at Jigatola in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi.
5 August 2018
BNP blames govt for attacks on students, warns of dire consequences
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir blames the ruling Awami League for carrying out sporadic attacks on the agitating students at different places across Dhaka that left several innocent students critically injured.
4 August 2018