By IANS
Dhaka : A court in Bangladesh has convicted four university teachers for leading a silent procession on the campus Aug 21 in defiance of the rules enforced under the current national emergency.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ruhul Amin Tuesday punished the four teachers for violating emergency rules and linked the protests to their alleged political affliations, reported the Daily Star newspaper.
The teachers took en masse leave and took out a silent procession to protest Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina’s arrest.
The four – Moloy Bhoumik of management department, Dulal Chandra Biswas, Sayed Selim Reza Newton and Abdullah Al Mamun of mass communication department – of Rajshahi University (RU) in western Bangladesh have been fined Taka 1,000 ($19) each, in default of which they will have to suffer one month more in jail.
Two other accused in the case, former Rajshahi University vice-chancellor M. Saidur Rahman Khan and convener of the university’s Progressive Teachers’ Society M. Abdus Sobhan were acquitted. They were later released from the Rajshahi Central Jail.