DU Chhatra League Demands Trial of Prof Asif Nazrul for His FB Status

Members of the ruling party's student wing Bangladesh Chhatra League locked Professor Dr Asif Nazrul's office at Dhaka University's law department on Wednesday, enraged by a Facebook post by the professor.

When the Chhatra League activists went to Professor Asif Nazrul's office after staging a program on campus to commemorate the series bombings, he was not there.

The law professor in a Facebook post on August 16 wrote that if elections were fair, Bangladesh would witness a situation similar to the chaotic scenes at Kabul airport a couple of days back, with thousands of people trying to escape after the Taliban took power.

The Chhatra League activists pasted posters on the wall outside the room and painted them to demand the professor’s trial for treason, terming him an agent of Jamaat-Shibir and the Pakistani spy agency ISI. They accused him of supporting militancy and the Taliban.

When contacted, Proctor AKM Golam Rabbani said he had heard about the incident and was looking into the matter.

DU unit Chhatra League President Saddam Hossain claimed that general students locked Asif Nazrul’s office following his “seditious” statement in favor of militancy.

“We hope that he will withdraw his remarks immediately and apologize to the nation,” Saddam said.

Meanwhile, Bangladesh Muktijuddha Mancha burned the effigy of Dr Asif Nazrul at Raju Bhaskarja on the campus and demanded his expulsion from the university for seditious activities.