Students and teachers of different universities participated in processions across the country demanding justice for wholesale arrests, attacks, cases, enforced disappearances and killings of students and ordinary people, despite facing obstruction from law enforcers on Wednesday.
They are brought out the processions as part of the as part of a programme titled 'March for Justice', which was announced by the Student Movement Against Discrimination platform for quota reform protests on Tuesday.
In Dhaka, students and teachers of Dhaka University brought out a procession at 12:30pm and marched towards the Supreme Court but they were obstructed by the police at Doyel Chattar.
Shehreen Amin Monami, a teacher at public administration department of DU, was reportedly injured in a scuffle with police near Curzon Hall on the university campus, UNB鈥檚 DU correspondent reports.
Later, another group of students staged a demonstration at part of the programme in front of the SC in the presence of the police and Border Guard Bangladesh personnel.
In Chattogram, the police detained eight student protesters on the Chattogram Court Building premises when they were protesting as part of the programme. Lawyers from Chattogram Court also participated in the protest.
In Sylhet city, the police dispersed protesters when they attempted to march towards Subidbazar as part of the 鈥楳arch for Justice鈥� programme, reports UNB.
The protesters started gathering at the main gate of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology at 11:00am, but the police had taken position there beforehand to obstruct them, said witnesses.
At around 12:30 pm, hundreds of students marched to the city鈥檚 court point and when the protesters tried to move towards Subidbazar police lobbed tear gas shells and sound grenades at them, reports UNB.
