'Posted pistol, tied up and given electric shocks ": BNP activists narrate tale of police atrocities

The police had made several attempts to stop the student movement in Bangladesh.
'Posted pistol, tied up and given electric shocks ": BNP activists narrate tale of police atrocities
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Bangladesh Crisis: The situation in Bangladesh is getting worse day by day. The students have been protesting against reservation in jobs and education for the past several months. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned from her post. He later fled to Bangladesh. Meanwhile, Sheikh Hasina's government had made several efforts to stop the violence in the name of the movement, which began a month ago. Hundreds of youths were also arrested.

During the student uprising and violent protests, the police pressured Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) activists to arrest hundreds of protesters, and to seek help in locating them. Some of the activists said, "We were harassed by the police to give the names of the protesters to the police. Two BNP activists who came out of jail told the Times of India about their ordeal.

Nizamuddin Mintoo and Zakir Hussain, who were released from a Dhaka jail, have made serious allegations against the police. "Mintoo and Hussain said," "On July 22, at around 12.30 pm, a group of policemen came to my house in plain clothes." They put their guns on us. A police officer told us that we are arresting you. "They will kill us," he said. "We have killed many policemen. "" "The police have already killed 25 youths and we are number 26 and 27."
"We were beaten up and beaten up"
"" "The police dragged us out of our house and bundled us into a 14-seater bus." There were 18 to 20 armed policemen around us. After we got on the bus, we were arrested. They also started asking us about the whereabouts of the protesters. At first we didn't say anything. So they started giving us electric shocks.
The police harassed us.
"The police took us in the same bus to the Postogola bridge over the Buriganga river. They asked us to get off the bus and stand on the railing of the bridge. They gave us two options. Help at least two protesters to arrest them or accept death. We told them that we will help you catch the protesters. We were then taken to the CID headquarters at Malibagh in Dhaka. We were put in a cell. There were five other people in the room. We were being questioned three to four times a day. At that time, the police were harassing us. We wanted to kill.

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