Rabindra University teachers, employees freed after 10 hrs
PBC News: Teachers and employees of Rabindra University, who were confined by the students for 10 hours, have been freed with the help of police members. Shahjazpur Police Station SI Rubel Hossain said, “Getting the news of confinement, we went to the campus at 1:30am on Monday and discussed with the protesting students over the matter. After discussion, the confined persons were released at about 2am.
The students of the university have been continuing their demonstration protesting torture of Farhana Yasmin Baten, former chairperson of the Department of History, Culture and Bangladesh Studies, on students who forcibly cut the hair of 14 students.
As a sequel, some teachers went to meet the protesters around 4pm on Sunday. At one stage, the students locked the academic building keeping the employees and the teachers inside.
Earlier on September 30, the university administration suspended Farhana Yasmin through an emergency meeting of the syndicate committee.
The victim students alleged that Farhana Baten had scolded students in her class for keeping their hair big.
On September 28, she forcibly cut off hair of 14 first-year students with scissors in examination hall, they added.
On September 29, one of the victims Nazmul Hossain Tuhin, 25, attempted to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills as he could not tolerate the insult.
