(Adnkronos) – Protests, blocked streets in Dhaka this morning after last night’s attacks and vandalism in various areas of Bangladesh, where tension remains high after the news of the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, one of the faces of the 2024 student revolt, also known as the July revolution. The BBC reports a protest that began at 10 local time with at least 200 people in the Shahbagh district of the capital. “A revolutionary government is needed,” was one of the protesters’ slogans. Tomorrow in Bangladesh will be a day of national mourning.
During the night, the network reports, there were acts of vandalism against the newsrooms of The Daily Star and Prothom Alo newspapers, and at the headquarters of Prothom Alo, destroyed by flames, firefighters are still working this morning.
Hadi, a member of the Inqilab Mancha group, wanted to be among the candidates for the elections on February 12, he wanted to run as an independent, but last Friday he was targeted in a shooting ambush in Dhaka. He had been transferred for medical treatment to Singapore, where he died yesterday. His body is expected to arrive in Bangladesh in the coming hours.
On February 12, parliamentary elections and a referendum on reforms, on the so-called ‘July Charter’, are scheduled in the country, the first elections since the mobilization that forced the then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee to India.
The interim administration led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohamed Yunus is in power, and in recent days he described the attack against Hadi – the day after the announcement of the election date – as an attempt to “sabotage the electoral process”. Hadi, who was 32, was known for his criticism of India.
