A group of the students of Jagannath University observed day-long strike on the campus demanding arrest the killers of secular writer and blogger, Nazim Uddin Samad, 26, who was attacked in Ekrampur intersection also one of their fellows Md Nazimuddin Samad.
The protesters around 8:00am in the morning locked up every department and went out on demonstration on the the campus.
At a rally, Mehrab Azad said they would siege the office of vice-chancellor as the university authorities have failed to take any steps over the matter.
Asked about the consistency of strike Mehrab, also a leader of Progressive Students Alliance, an alliance of left-leaning student organisations, said they have withdrawn the indefinite strike, the next frame of movement would be announced on Wednesday during VC building siege.
Witnesses said no classes were held during the strike while most of the students and teachers supported the strike.
Last year, suspected Islamist militants hacked to death at least four atheist bloggers and a secular publisher in a long-running series of targeting killings of anti-Islam activists in the Muslim majority country.
Police arrested members of a banned group called the Ansarullah Bangla Team over those murders, although none have yet been prosecuted.
Imran H Sarker, who leads Bangladesh’s largest online secular activist group, said Samad had joined nationwide protests in 2013 against top Islamist leaders accused of committing war crimes during the country’s war of independence.
‘He was a secular online activist and a loud voice against any social injustice. He was against Islamic fundamentalism,’ said Sarker, head of the Bangladesh Bloggers Association.
Samad had written against radical Islamism in a number of recent Facebook postings.
