Abrar Fahad killed: Bangladesh student was beaten for four hours

Abarar Fahad killed: Bangladesh student was beaten for four hours

A Bangladeshi college man student killed in his dormitory on Sunday days once criticising the govt on-line was crushed for many hours before he died, witnesses told the BBC.

Fellow students say Abrar Fahad was taken from his area around 20:00 (14:00 GMT) and crushed a minimum of four hours.

The doctor UN agency performed the autopsy on Fahad, who was 21, confirmed to the BBC his body was heavily contused.

Fahad studied at Dhaka's Bangladesh University of Engineering (Buet).

Several members of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) - the youth wing of the governing Awami League party - were detained in reference to the death.

The BCL has been wide defendant of mistreatment torture and extortion against students.

CCTV footage from Fahad's dormitory showed many men carrying the victim's body. Police detained 9 men from the residence hall, together with a minimum of 5 BCL activists.

By Tues the quantity of arrests had up to thirteen, police aforementioned, all from Buet, whereas six a lot of suspects square measure being sought-after.

Dhaka deputy commissioner Munstasirul Islam confirmed the coed had been crushed to death.

Dr Sohel Mahmud, head of the rhetorical department at Dhaka Medical faculty Hospital, UN agency examined Fahad's body, told the BBC: "There was heaps of blunt force trauma in his body. we predict he died of attack with blunt objects."

BCL members quoted by native media aforementioned Fahad had been "questioned" associated crushed over alleged links to an Muhammedan party. That came once he wrote a post on social media criticising the govt over a water-sharing influence Asian country.

In a statement, the BCL aforementioned that once effecting investigations it had expelled eleven members of its Buet division, bdnews24.com reports.

'Please take American state to the hospital'

A Buet student UN agency spoke to the BBC however failed to wish to be named for concern of reprisals aforementioned they'd seen Fahad alive at 02:00 in a very area wherever he had been crushed.

"I saw Abrar in area 2005, he was still alive... With facilitate from some junior students I carried Abrar downstairs. He was still alive and he was voice communication, 'Please take American state to the hospital quickly.'"

Another student UN agency came across the scene aforementioned many students had gathered with the assistant academic administrator of the dormitory to urge him to require action, once members of the BCL started banging on the door, making an attempt to achieve entry.

News of the death light-emitting diode to protests on Monday in Dhaka and different cities. Students within the capital musical slogans and blocked roads. Protests continuing on Tues with students at Buet strict the corporal punishment for those found guilty of the killing.

Former students and members of the teaching workers conjointly joined the demonstration on the Buet field. The killing has aghast Bangladesh and shone a lightweight on the culture of violence publicly universities.

"This is completely unacceptable that a student can die from torture in a very residential hall," aforementioned AKM Masud, president of the Buet Teachers' Association, in keeping with Bangladeshi web site bdnews24.com.

"Abrar Fahad's death has tested the authorities' complete failure to confirm the security of scholars."

Where violence and torture square measure common

Analysis by Mir Sabbir, BBC Bengali, Dhaka

Torture of public university students by the coed wing of the ruling parties is nothing new. New students square measure typically forced to attend conferences and rallies simply to be ready to keep within the dormitories. Beating and bullying of these UN agency hold completely different views or defy the order of the leaders is common.

When college students participating within the 2018 road safety protests were crushed by unknown attackers in helmets, BCL activists were wide deuced.

The same year, BCL supporters attacked protestant students at Rajshahi University and footage of 1 of the victims being crushed with a hammer went microorganism on social media.

Political parties have for a protracted time been mistreatment their student wings as their muscle. though the parties don't seem to be allowed to own official student wings, their existence is simple.

Now even a senior leader of the Awami League has told BBC Bangla it's time to rethink whether or not this type of politics ought to be supported. many of us in Bangladesh share an equivalent read, not least the oldsters UN agency square measure dreaming of causation their kids to Buet in some unspecified time in the future.