Staff Reporter :
Around 400 demonstrators have started their long-march programme from Dhaka to Noakhali’s Begumganj upazila, protesting the growing cases of rape, sexual harassment and violence against women across the country and the culture of impunity.
The march began from Shahbagh around 10:30am on Friday morning.
The protesters mostly workers of the left-leaning parties, students, youths and rights activists, started their long march under the banner of “Dhorshon O Bicharhinotar Biruddhe Bangladesh” (Bangladesh
against Rape and Impunity) to press home their nine-points demand. They will also chant anti-rape slogans. Mehdi Hasan Nobel, President of Bangladesh Students’ Union said, “This march is part of our protest against rape and injustice…”
“Around 400 activists are taking part in this programme. Firstly, seven buses will depart from Gulistan, then another five buses will join the protest from Narayanganj,” Sadikul Islam Sadik, Vice-President of Socialist Students’ Front’s Dhaka University wing, stated.
They organised a rally at Narayanganj on their way and will hold another in Maizdi of Noakhali on Saturday.
Their demands included exemplary punishment for the perpetrators involved with rape and violence against women, resignation of the home minister and an end to repression of women.
Protests against rape and violence against women erupted across the country since the beginning of October, after the gang rape in Sylhet’s MC College and Noakhali’s Begumganj upazila.
Around 400 demonstrators have started their long-march programme from Dhaka to Noakhali’s Begumganj upazila, protesting the growing cases of rape, sexual harassment and violence against women across the country and the culture of impunity.
The march began from Shahbagh around 10:30am on Friday morning.
The protesters mostly workers of the left-leaning parties, students, youths and rights activists, started their long march under the banner of “Dhorshon O Bicharhinotar Biruddhe Bangladesh” (Bangladesh
against Rape and Impunity) to press home their nine-points demand. They will also chant anti-rape slogans. Mehdi Hasan Nobel, President of Bangladesh Students’ Union said, “This march is part of our protest against rape and injustice…”
“Around 400 activists are taking part in this programme. Firstly, seven buses will depart from Gulistan, then another five buses will join the protest from Narayanganj,” Sadikul Islam Sadik, Vice-President of Socialist Students’ Front’s Dhaka University wing, stated.
They organised a rally at Narayanganj on their way and will hold another in Maizdi of Noakhali on Saturday.
Their demands included exemplary punishment for the perpetrators involved with rape and violence against women, resignation of the home minister and an end to repression of women.
Protests against rape and violence against women erupted across the country since the beginning of October, after the gang rape in Sylhet’s MC College and Noakhali’s Begumganj upazila.
