Anti-Discrimination-Student-Movement

Seven individuals, including Obaidul Quader, General Secretary of the Awami League (currently banned) have been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity committed during the July Uprising.The other sentenced individuals are: AFM Bahauddin Nasim, Joint General Secretary of the Awami League, Mohammad A. Arafat, former State Minister for Information, Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash, Chairman of the banned Jubo League, Mainul Hossain Khan, General Secretary of the forbidden Jubo Le...

The movement that began in Bangladesh in 2024 around the demand for "quota reform" in government jobs created a new chapter in the country's history just two months later; a government that had been in power for over 15 years fell, and many political calculations were upended. However, movements against the quota system had occurred even earlier. In 2018, facing protests, the government completely abolished the quota system. The then Awami League government also issued a circular to this effect....

On August 5, 2024, the Awami League government—which had held continuous power for over fifteen and a half years—collapsed in the face of a fierce mass uprising led by students and the general public. Yet right up until midday that day, the now-banned party had not sensed the slightest hint that it was about to lose power. From top leadership down to grassroots activists, the party maintained firm faith that party chief Sheikh Hasina would forcefully contain the Anti-Discrimination Student Movem...

July has returned to the calendar once again. It was exactly two years ago when the streets roared with slogans and the walls pleaded for freedom. The air was filled with the sharp whistles of speeding bullets, the deafening blasts of sound grenades, and the scent of fresh blood. Hundreds of young lives were sacrificed for the country, and those blood-soaked days remain vivid in memory. Two years have passed, and the formal commemoration of the second anniversary of the July Mass Uprisi...