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Bangladesh's slain extremist person Sharif Osman Hadi's enactment activists connected Friday (December 26, 2025) blocked 1 of Dhaka's busiest intersections, demanding justness for his killing, disrupting postulation successful the superior for respective hours.
After Friday (December 26) prayers, leaders and supporters of Inqilab Moncho and July Moncho, joined by students and members of the public, brought retired a protestation procession from the Dhaka University Central Mosque and marched towards Shahbagh, wherever they staged a sit-in demonstration, The Daily Star paper reported.
Md Moniruzzaman, officer-in-charge of Shahbagh Police Station, said the agitators began blocking the intersection astatine astir 2:30 p.m. section clip and postulation has remained suspended since then.
The protesters blocked the main roads astatine Shahbagh, bringing vehicular question successful the country to a implicit halt.
Addressing the demonstrators, Inqilab Moncho Member Secretary Abdullah Al Jaber said the radical would proceed the blockade until justness was ensured for Hadi's killing, adding that protesters were prepared to enactment overnight astatine the tract if necessary.
“From today, we state this Shahbagh arsenic ‘Shaheed Osman Hadi Chattar’. Our question volition not permission the streets until justness is ensured for Hadi’s killing,” Al Jaber was quoted arsenic saying by The Dhaka Tribune newspaper.
Shahbagh is simply a strategical junction connecting respective cardinal parts of Dhaka, and blockades determination often origin wide postulation congestion crossed the city.
Hadi, a staunch professional of India alongside the Awami League, was 1 of the leaders of past year’s convulsive student-led thoroughfare protestation dubbed the July Uprising that toppled the Hasina-led government.
He aboriginal floated the Inqilab Mancha. Hadi was a campaigner for the scheduled parliamentary predetermination successful February.
He was changeable successful the caput by masked gunmen connected December 12 successful Dhaka. Six days later, helium died astatine a Singapore hospital.
The Inqilab Mancha has demanded the contiguous resignation of Home Adviser Jahangir Alam Chowdhury and Law Adviser Asif Nazrul, holding them accountable for the murder.
The instrumentality advisor has promised to clasp the proceedings successful Bangladesh’s Speedy Trial Tribunal, which requires hearings to beryllium completed successful 90 days.
After Hadi’s death, mobs successful Dhaka staged mayhem, mounting alight the main offices of wide circulation Prothom Alo and Daily Star newspaper, 2 progressive taste groups Chhayanat and Udichi Shilpi Goshthi successful Dhaka. A Hindu mill idiosyncratic was lynched by a mob successful cardinal Mymensingh.
