Reporters of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology on Tuesday (11 April) staged a sit-in programme covering their faces with black scarf to protest at the attack on their two fellows by the activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League.
They demanded expulsion of the BCL activists involved in the attack.
A group of activists of BCL SUST unit beat up and injured SUST Press Club vice-president Syed Nabiul Alam, also campus correspondent of daily Shokaler Khobor, and general secretary Sarder Abbas, campus correspondent of Bangladesh Observer in front of the university main entrance on Saturday (8 April).
The journalists came under the attack when they protested against the BCL men while they were stalking a girl, who came to visit the campus from outside.
Correspondents of different national and regional newspapers working on the campus participated at the sit-in programme on the altar of Chetana 71, a memorial of the Liberation War, around 3:30pm on Tuesday.
The correspondent reports that Islamic University Journalists Association condemned the attack on the journalists of SUST on Tuesday (11 April).
In a statement, IUJA president Mustafa Zubayer Alam and general secretary Abdullah Al-Faruk demanded immediate punishment of the attackers.
