Bangladesh quota reform movement
Quota reform leaders reeling under lawsuits
It is becoming increasingly difficult for quota reform leaders to attend court hearings every month as police are “dillydallying” the submission of probe reports in five cases filed against them over a year ago.
‘Movement was for quota system reformation, not for abolishment’
Quota reformists say that their movement was for logical reformation in the civil service quota system, not for total abolishment.
Toriqul fights thru' pain
As the ambulance stopped in front of the Department of Islamic Studies of Rajshahi University in the morning, a few students rushed towards it.
Issue gazette notification immediately
Quota reformists yesterday staged a demonstration on Rajshahi University campus demanding immediate gazette notification for bringing reforms to the quota system for civil service jobs.
Student Protest: 3 more students get bail
Three more students involved with the recent student protest and quota reform movement have been given bail in cases filed with different police stations in Dhaka.
Bail brings relief, joy
The last 14 days had been excruciating for the family members of Shakhawat Hossain Nijhum.
Release arrested students: SCBA
The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) demands release of students detained over recent protests and quota reform movement, withdrawing all cases filed against them.
Quota reform leader Luma placed on 3-day remand over ‘rumours’
A Dhaka court places quota reform leader Lutfur Nahar Luma on a three-day remand in a case filed against her for allegedly spreading rumours on social media and instigating violence during the recent student movement for safe roads.
Quota reform demo: Eden College student held in Sirajganj
A student of Eden College, also a leader of the quota reform movement, is arrested from her grandfather’s house in Belkuchi upazila of Sirajganj district, police say.
DU off-limits to outsiders
No outsider will be allowed to roam around in the campus without permission from the Dhaka University authorities. The provost committee came up with the decision at a meeting held on July 5 in the backdrop of "unwanted incidents" centering the quota reform movement.
Pro-quota reform rally attacked at JnU
Students of progressive fronts have come under attack at Jagannath University when they were marching in favour of the quota reformation demand.
Quota reform: Public service reform bodies’ suggestion to be reviewed
The recommendations made by several public service reform committees and Public Service Commission since the introduction of quota system in civil service in 1972 will be reviewed to decide on either reformation or cancellation of the system, says Cabinet Secretary M Shafiul Alam.
Judicial probe demanded into attack on students
A group of guardians and citizens demand judicial probe into the recent spate of attacks on quota reformists across the country.
Girl shares horrors of assault, abuse by anti-quota reform men, cops
A female student, who participated in the ongoing quota reform movement, shares her horrific experiences of physical assault, verbal abuse and mental tortures allegedly inflicted by activists against quota reform movement and policemen.
Girls rally for safe campus at DU, meet anti demo
Two groups are concurrently demonstrating at Dhaka University, one protesting the attack on students and the other against what they are describing as agitation at campus. Girls in big numbers have come down to the streets and chanting slogans against attack on students.
Quota reform: Cops foil citizens' demo, assault DU teacher
Police allegedly assault a Dhaka University teacher when a platform of parents and teachers gather at Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka for holding a demonstration programme expressing concern over the detention of quota reform leaders.
DU proctor ‘uninformed’ over attack on students
After three days and multiple incidents of assaults, Dhaka University’s Proctor AKM Golam Rabbani says he remains “uninformed” over attack on students and that no one has written a complaint to him.
BCL men even more aggressive
It was around 10:45am. About 15 quota reformists gathered at the Central Shaheed Minar to form a human chain. Within moments, however, a group of people pounced on them.
Quota Reform Movement: TIB seeks punishment for attackers
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) expresses its deep concern over the attacks on the members of quota reform movement and demanded for exemplary punishment of those involved in the attacks.
