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Published : 08 Sep 2025, 09:55 PM
A college student has testified that former Chattogram mayor AJM Nasir fired at protesters during the July Uprising.
Mohammad Hasan, a second-year political science undergraduate student at Chattogram College, appeared before the three-member panel of International Crimes Tribunal-1, headed by Chairman Golam Mortuza Mozumder, on Monday.
He told the tribunal that he was shot in the back during the protest and showed his bullet wounds as evidence.
Hasan was the 37th witness in the crimes against humanity case against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, and former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun.
Hasan said he and 10 friends joined the protest in Muradpur around 2pm on Jul 16, 2024.
He said Awami League’s youth wing Jubo League leader Nurul Azim Rony, accompanied by Helal Akbar Chowdhury Babor, Shaibal Das Suman, and former mayor AJM Nasir opened fire on their group.
According to him, Rony was carrying a pistol, Babor had a shotgun, while others wielded local weapons.
The protesters dispersed amid the gunfire. Some fled towards Soloshahar, while Hasan and a few others took refuge inside a house in Mohammadpur.
“Through a fellow protester named Anwar, we learned that Faisal Ahmed Shanto was killed in Muradpur by gunfire from the attackers,” Hasan said, adding that he knew Faisal personally.
“Later, through Bappi, a coordinator from Mohsin College, I heard that the same attackers hacked another protester, Wasim Akram, to death on Muradpur Road and shot dead Faruk, a carpenter.”
That night, he went to Chattogram Medical College Hospital to see Faisal’s body but was prevented by police and hospital authorities.
Hasan then recounted the events of Jul 18, 2024, near New Bridge in Chattogram.
Around 10am, he joined a sit-in demonstration with five to six friends at a location where about 2,000 protesters had gathered.
“Police from the Bakolia and Karnaphuli stations stood in front of us, with Awami League activists behind them. Police fired sound grenades and tear gas shells at us, forcing us to scatter. As we ran towards a nearby filling station, police and Awami League members fired shotguns at us. I was hit in the back with 11 pellets.”
He said he received treatment at Parkview Hospital, where doctors removed eight shotgun pellets from his body, but three remain lodged inside. Hasan showed the tribunal the scars from the injuries.
After being shot, he was first taken by ambulance to Chattogram Medical College Hospital, but members of the Chhatra League, Jubo League and police allegedly blocked entry at the hospital gate. He was then taken by rickshaw to Parkview Hospital.
Holding top political and security figures responsible, Hasan blamed Hasina, Khan, Mamun, the Chattogram police commissioner, other police officers, and local leaders of the Awami League for these killings and attacks.
