Student organisations, cultural platforms, and bloggers have taken to the streets from Friday morning at TSC intersection of Dhaka University, demanding the immediate arrest of the killers of blogger-writer Avijit Roy.
Students gathered under the banner "Teachers-Students Agitation Platform," and chanted slogans, demanding the right to expression and justice for the attack on Avijit and his wife Bonna.
Many paid floral tributes at the spot where Avijit Roy was hacked to death and his wife Rafida Ahmed Bonna injured by unidentified miscreants.
The protesters positioned themselves near the Raju Anti-terrorism Sculpture, and held rallies, sang songs, chanted slogans, and had a candle-lit vigil, protesting the attack on the writer and his wife on their return from the book fair.
The speakers and protesters said the attack was a "massive threat" to the country's freedom of speech and democracy.
Chhatra Union, Chhatra Federation, and Chhatra Front were among the organisations that staged the daylong protests. In addition, the Gonojagoron Moncho, a platform calling for the punishment of war criminals, also carried out a sit-in at Shahbagh.
They formed a human chain in the morning and in the evening they brought out a torch-procession through different areas of the university.
Meanwhile, Dhaka University students brught out a mourning procession with black masks around 7:30pm, while a candlelight procession was also brought out from Oparajeo Bangla.
Protesting the killing, students declared tougher protest programmes. They vowed to stage a nonstop protest until the killers are arrested.
Baki Billah, an organiser of the protest at the Raju Sculpture at TSC, said they would keep on protesting the killing until the attackers are arrested.
“The protest will continue,” Baki Said.
He said: “It is astonishing, and unacceptable that the killers are still at large."