People suffered on Sunday due to traffic congestion as the families of a section of July uprising victims blocked the road leading to the state guest house Jamuna in the capital to press their demands, including the resignation of law adviser Asif Nazrul and chief adviser鈥檚 special assistant for home ministry Md Khuda Baksh Chowdhury.
They kept the busy road blocked for about 20 minutes from about 3:00pm on the day but withdrew their blockade following protests from commuters and drivers of different vehicles got stuck in the blockade there. The blockade caused heavy traffic congestion in the area and the adjoining areas.
The families of those killed and injured during the 2024 July鈥揂ugust uprising, however, held a sit-in in front of a police barricade opposite to the InterContinental Dhaka Hotel and stayed there until about 8:15pm.
Alleging that the accused in the July massacre cases were securing bail in exchange for money, the protesters demanded the immediate resignation of the law adviser.
They made the demand after they came to know that former Jatrabari police sub-inspector Sazzad Uz Zaman, an accused in the killing of martyr Imam Hasan Taim, was granted bail.
The protesters demanded the resignation of the home ministry special assistant for failing to address the police attack on their demonstration in front of the secretariat on August 19 over their demands.
They also called for justice for the martyrs of the student-led uprising which ousted the authoritarian Awami League regime on August 5, 2024.
The protesters began their demonstration near the National Press Club at about 11:00am on the day, marched to Banglamotor in front of the National Citizen Party office there by 1:30pm and blocked the road leading to the state guest house Jamuna, the official residence of interim government鈥檚 chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus, at about 3:00pm.
Police, howveve, barricaded the protesters on the road opposite to the InterContinental Dhaka Hotel.
Injured July uprising coordinator Sheikh Mutafiz told 抖阴精品 that they would continue their sit-in until their demands were met.
The protesters also demanded immediate DNA tests of 114, who allegedly killed and buried anonymously in a graveyard in the capital.聽
Nabil, younger brother of martyr Sohel Rana, who was killed in the capital鈥檚 Kazla but whose family has not found his body yet, said that the government had promised to exhume the bodies from the graveyard on August 4, but had not done so yet.
On August 19, following the demonstration, law adviser Asif Nazrul, in a Facebook post, wrote, 鈥業n a case filed by the family of a July victim, the High Court has granted bail to a member of the police force. Naturally, this has angered the families of the martyrs.鈥�
The following day, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court ordered Sazzad to surrender before the trial court after staying a High Court order that granted Sazzad鈥檚 interim bail three months ago.