Academics, rights activists and other professionals on Saturday condemned the attack on Friday afternoon by unnamed goons on demonstrations organised in Dhaka in protest at 'state-sponsored terrorism' against Limon Hossain.
In a joint statement, they also demanded immediate, exemplary punishment of the attackers.
They said that it was the democratic rights of any citizens to protest at any oppression by any quarters in the country.
The signatories to the statement included, among others, rights activist and former Jahangirnagar University teacher Rahnuma Ahmed, Dhaka University teachers Akmol Hossain, Jobaida Nasrin, Amena Mohsin and Gitiara Nasrin, Rajshahi University teachers Selim Reza Newton and Abdullah Al Mamun, Jahangirnagar University teachers Anu Muhammad and Mozammel Haque, Human Rights activists Hamida Hossain and Supreme Court lawyer Sara Hossain.
Goons attacked the demonstrations, where a street play was being staged, in front of the National Museum on Friday afternoon in protest against the shooting of Limon Hossain by the Rapid Action Battalion which resulted in the amputation of one of Limon's legs.
A group of young people attacked the demonstrations when the Aranyak Natyadal was stating the street play Khekshiyal (jackals) about 4:30pm.
The group attacked the stage, threw away the public address system and props and many of the spectators initially thought it was an action of the play, they said.
The people chased and captured one of the attackers as they were fleeing, said Ariful Islam, a student activist.
The police promptly arrived at the place and rescued the young man and took him away, he added.
There was no police deployment during the demonstrations which took place just 50 yards off the Shahbagh police station.
A civic forum called Sangkshubdha Nagarik Samaj has been organising demonstrations, including human chains and cultural programmes, every Friday since June 3 to protest at 'state-sponsored terrorism' against Limon.
The Rapid Action Battalion shot at Limon Hossain in the leg on March 23 in Jhalakati, less than a fortnight before his higher secondary certificate examinations were to begin.
Source : New Age
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