News No.159/2015:
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
THE army on Monday
detained briefly four Jumma students who were protesting at the rape of a Jumma
teenage girl on 7 October in Matiranga.
The protestors were
released later in the day when the students threatened with more protests.
According to sources,
at 12 noon on Monday, students of Manikchari Giri Moitri college began a
protest march from College Gate.
When it proceeded
towards the centre of the Upazila headquarters, the police stopped them at
Amtola.
Then the marchers
turned around and began returning to the college in a procession.
As they reached in
front of the local office of the Roads and Highways Department, a group of army
personnel from Manikchari sub-zone stood in their way and arrested Shanta
Marma, Imon Marma, Ula Pru Marma and Kyajai Marma.
They were handed over
the police but were released in the evening when the Uapazila chairman, the
college principal and others intervened.
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