BSS-56 Students demand capital punishment of rapist

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Students demand capital punishment of rapist

DHAKA, Jan 9, 2020 (BSS) – Hundreds of Dhaka University (DU) students today continued demonstration for the fourth consecutive day protesting the raping incident and demanded death penalty of the rapist.

A group of students staged a sit-in demonstration in front of the Raju Sculpture on DU campus around 1:00pm while female students formed a human shield at the Teacher Student Centre (TSC) intersection and chanted slogan “We want justice, hang the rapist”.

They also burnt an effigy of the rapist. Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) Member Tanbir Hasan Shaikat led the program.

Professor Dr. Giti Ara Nasreen and Dr Kajaile Shehreen of Mass Communication and Journalism Department expressed their solidarity with the students’.

On January 5, a second-year student of Dhaka University was picked up by the rapist after she got down from bus in Kurmitola area in the capital and then was taken to a secret place where she was raped and tortured.

On January 8, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested the rapist, Mojnu, based on the description given by the victim and by tracking her mobile phone snatched by the rapist.

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