The traders were returning to their neighbourhood after buying vegetables from the wholesale market in Manikganj’s Jaagir.
"Or else we will intensify our agitation," DU Bangla department Professor Rafique Ullah Khan said at a rally on the campus.
“Two months back, the younger generation set up the Ganajagaran Mancha to demand capital punishment for war criminals. They revived the spirit of the Liberation War and a non-communal Bangladesh. Their only crime was to have wanted to build a country free of war criminals and Jamaat.”
One of the arrested bloggers is a Dhaka University student. The arrests were made following demands to punish ‘atheists’ from Islamists operating under the banner of Hifazat-e-Islam.