Members of Students Against Torture (SAT) on Thursday formed a human chain near the Raju Memorial Sculpture on Dhaka University (DU) campus, demanding action against the perpetrators of the attack on a program organized on the third death anniversary of Abrar Fahad.
SAT members organized the program under the banner of “General Students”.
At least 20 others joined the human chain.
Saleh Uddin Sifat, convener of SAT, said: "We demand justice for the attack and the release of the 24 activists of Chhatra Odhikar Parishad, who were arrested and sent to jail without doing anything wrong."
"The one-eyed behavior of Bangladesh police has again been exposed, as the attack was launched by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists that left members of the other party badly injured," he added.
Demanding the release of the activists of Chhatra Odhikar Parishad, Nusrat Tabassum, a 4th year student of political science, also a member of SAT, said: "Three Chhatra Odhikar Parishad activists could not appear in exams as they are in jail."
Protesting against the BCL attack, Ahnaf Sayed Khan, a student of DU's Urdu department and a member of SAT, said: “Abrar was one who loved the country and sacrificed his life for the country. Attack on his memorial program directly means disrespect to the country."
On October 7, activists of Dhaka University unit of the Chhatra League allegedly carried out the attack on the program organized by Chatra Odhikar Parishad in memory of deceased Buet student Abrar Fahad.
Later, BCL activists allegedly launched another attack on the injured Chhatra Odhikar Parishad activists at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital. However, police detained 24 activists of Chhatra Odhikar Parishad.
Later, two charges were filed against them on a complaint from Nazim Uddin, organizing secretary of the Chhatra League's central committee who was injured in the attack.
All the 24 activists of Chhatra Odhikar Parishad were subsequently produced in a court that sent them to judicial custody.
