Rajshahi University Progressive Teachers' Association yesterday urged the caretaker government to solve the crisis regarding the teachers and students of Rajshahi University and Dhaka University without hurting their dignity.

"A complete and just solution to the crisis is yet to be done as some of the teachers and students were branded as criminals through conviction", said former RU vice-chancellor Saidur Rahman Khan.

He was reading out a paper at a press conference at the Deans' Complex of the university.

Expressing resentment over the conviction against the teachers and students, he said the convicts are still aggrieved.

Association convener Abdus Sobhan, Moloy Kumar Bhowmik, Mizan Uddin, Jalal Uddin, SM Abu Bakkar, Shamsuddin Ilias, Fayekuzzman, Muhammad Naser, Sujit Kumar Sarker, Muhammad Nurullah, Hasibul Alam Prodhan, Dr Anisur Rahman and Dr Ahsan Kabir, among others, were present.

The teachers and students were convicted for protesting injustice. Although they were relieved of punishment through clemency, they had been branded as criminals, he said.

"We think the conviction against the university teachers and students will not solve the crisis, rather it will intensify if they are not acquitted from the charges" they said adding that the conviction will create scopes for harassment.

The teachers said they fear the convicted students might face difficulties in getting government jobs and other facilities in future.