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RANGPUR, Dec 18, 2025 (BSS) - The Provost Building of Shaheed Felani Hall at 
Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) has been inaugurated. 
 
Vice-chancellor Professor Dr Md Showkat Ali officially inaugurated the 
Provost Building of Shaheed Felani Hall in a simple ceremony arranged on the 
occasion as the chief guest on Thursday.
 
At this time, the Provost of Shaheed Felani Hall Professor Dr Most Sifat 
Rumana, Director of the university's Institutional Quality Assurance Cell 
(IQAC) Professor Dr Md Tajul Islam, Registrar Dr Md Harun-or Rashid, 
Assistant Hall Provosts, Engineering and Administrative Officers and other 
concerned persons were present.
 
It may be mentioned here that the BRUR authority renamed a residential hall 
of the university as Felani Hall after the July Uprising as a mark of deep 
respect to Felani Khatun.
 
Felani Khatun, a 15-year-old Bangladeshi girl, was shot dead by India's 
Border Security Force (BSF) while attempting to cross the India-Bangladesh 
border near Anantapur village under Phulbari upazila in Kurigram district on 
January 7, 2011. 
 
Her body became famously and tragically known worldwide for being left to 
hang on the barbed-wire border fence for several hours after the shooting. 
 
A photograph of Felani's lifeless body hanging from the fence was widely 
circulated internationally sparking massive outrage and protests in 
Bangladesh and abroad over the BSF's use of excessive force and human rights 
violations along the border. 
 
Felani has become a symbol demanding an end to border killings and a reminder 
of the vulnerability of undocumented migrants. 
 
A road in Dhaka's Gulshan diplomatic zone has even been renamed "Felani 
Avenue" in Shaheed Felani Khatun's memory.