The protests across the capital are being acknowledged by international media while dominating social media discussions across different platforms.
On Reddit, two separate posts concerning the student protests have 108k and 136k upvotes (the Reddit equivalent of Facebook likes) and are sorted into the “top” category. "Top" posts on Reddit are posts that are heavily upvoted and commented on during a certain period of time- in this case, the last 24 hours.
School students have been protesting in demand for safer roads for 7 days in Bangladesh. Today, they were outnumbered and attacked by the student wing of the Bangladeshi government. from r/worldnews
On Twitter, #RoadSafetyBD has 11.1k Tweets so far and the word “Bangladesh” has been used in over 600k Tweets. Meanwhile #bangladeshstudentprotests has 50.8k Tweets.
Thousands of students are demanding road safety during a youth protest on the streets of Dhaka after a boy and girl were killed by a speeding bus. Only to be attacked, with reports of sexual assault #bangladeshstudentprotest https://t.co/64DsYZC5Ws
— Aisha S Gani (@aishagani) August 4, 2018
Twitter has deleted #WeWantJustice; the hashtag was trending with over 60k tweets until it was suddenly deleted without explanation.
So proud of the youth in Bangladesh fighting for change. I stand with you in the fight for justice. ??https://t.co/N5W6iE6sF5 pic.twitter.com/mcyAC0jhPC
— Nabela (@Nabela) August 2, 2018
