A female student, who participated in the ongoing quota reform movement, shares her horrific experiences of physical assault, verbal abuse and mental tortures allegedly inflicted by activists against quota reform movement and policemen.

Two groups are concurrently demonstrating at Dhaka University, one protesting the attack on students and the other against what they are describing as agitation at campus. Girls in big numbers have come down to the streets and chanting slogans against attack on students.

Police allegedly assault a Dhaka University teacher when a platform of parents and teachers gather at Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka for holding a demonstration programme expressing concern over the detention of quota reform leaders.

After three days and multiple incidents of assaults, Dhaka University’s Proctor AKM Golam Rabbani says he remains “uninformed” over attack on students and that no one has written a complaint to him.

It was around 10:45am. About 15 quota reformists gathered at the Central Shaheed Minar to form a human chain. Within moments, however, a group of people pounced on them.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) expresses its deep concern over the attacks on the members of quota reform movement and demanded for exemplary punishment of those involved in the attacks.

On duty police members are seen leaving the spot just before the attack on the quota reform movement activists allegedly by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) members at Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka.

Family members of one of the injured leaders of quota reform movement alleges that authorities of a hospital in Dhaka forcefully released him in the wee hours.

Five students demanding civil service quota reforms are injured as attack on quota reformists allegedly by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) members continued for the third consecutive day.

Students demanding civil service quota reforms came under attacks in Dhaka and Rajshahi allegedly by BCL men yesterday while a leader of the platform spearheading their movement was arrested.

Political opposition BNP condemns yesterday’s attack on quota reformists.

Members of quota reform movement could not hold their scheduled press briefing as they were attacked allegedly by the members of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on the Dhaka University campus.

Quota reform demonstrators are to observe a two-hour strike at all the colleges and universities across the country as the government failed to issue a gazette notification on abolishing quota system in public service by Thursday.

The public administration ministry sends a proposal to the Prime Minister’s Office for undertaking necessary steps including forming a committee to put an end to the crisis of the much-talked-about existing quota system in the civil service.

Investigators claim to have identified two persons who spread rumours in social media and incited violence during the recent Quota reform movement.

The parliamentary body on public administration yesterday suggested that the quota system in government jobs should not be abolished completely as announced by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina earlier.

Children of freedom fighters under the banner of Amra Muktijoddhar Sontan urge the government to preserve 30 percent quota for them in public service and to form a commission for its smooth implementation.

In 2016, the Supreme Court in a verdict on widespread abuse of police's powers over arrest and detention strongly denounced all sorts of torture by the law enforcement agencies and directed magistrates to take action against errant policemen in case of any such incident.

Three students, who led the recent quota reform movement, are released hours after they were allegedly picked up by detectives.