Bangladeshi students allege police tortured them after protests crackdown
Initially peaceful demonstrations turned violent last week with more than 150 dead and thousands injured
Student activists in Bangladesh have alleged they were abducted by police and tortured for their role in the protests that have swept the country over the past month, prompting a violent police crackdown and the arrest of thousands of political opponents and government critics.
Nahid Islam, a Dhaka University student and one of the main organisers of the protest movement, which has been fighting against “discriminatory” quotas for government jobs, said he was picked up by police late last week, tortured and left unconscious on the side of the road.
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