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Students at Chittagong University hit back - Protests are spreading!

Thousands of students successfully protested against the introduction of Value Added Tax (VAT) in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh on July 26th. The introduction was revoked.

On the same day students at Chittagong University (CU) kicked off their protests against an announced hike in tuition fees. Within one week the struggle intensified and turned into a movement known as "Students against hike in tuition fees".

The university authorities filed criminal cases against 11 activists by name and 21 others as unknown so far. This only gave the movement another boost. It is now spreading from the university campus across the whole city. Students of other institutions in Chittagong are joining the movement. Thousands of people have been occupying the four major streets of the city, chanting slogans and performing revolutionary songs.
Friday and Saturday are weekly holidays at universities in Bangladesh. The students involved in the movement are mainly non-residential students. Like at other universities the dormitories are constantly controlled by armed cadres of the state government. Therefore residential students are intimidated to get directly involved in the movement. Nontheless many residential students left their dormitories this weekend and joined the rallies in Chittagong city. They plan to spend the whole night in the city streets with protest activities. And tomorrow they will again march towards the campus from city.

Thanks to Tarek (an activist in Bangladesh) for sharing this information.

Here some of the pictures taken during the past few days of protest:

on the banner it says: "Withdraw all types of fee increases! Students against hike of tuition fees!"

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Latest pictures (July 31st):

Source: SomeWhereInBlog.net