DHAKA: Bangladeshi police detectives on Friday (Jul 26) forced the discharge from the hospital of three student protest leaders blamed for deadly unrest, taking them to an unknown location, staff told AFP.
Nahid Islam, one of the top leaders of the main protest organiser Students Against Discrimination, speaks during an interview with AFP in Dhaka on July 22, 2024.
"They took them from us," Gonoshasthaya hospital supervisor Anwara Begum Lucky told AFP."The men were from the Detective Branch." The trio's student group had suspended fresh protests at the start of this week, saying that they had wanted reform of government job quotas but not"at the expense of so much blood".
Islam, 26, the chief coordinator of Students Against Discrimination, told AFP from his hospital bed on Monday that he feared for his life. With around 18 million young people in Bangladesh out of work, according to government figures, the move deeply upset graduates facing an acute jobs crisis.‘We saw things we do not want to see’: Fear and trauma as 123 Malaysians evacuated from deadly protests in Bangladesh
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