Abrar Fahad murder

2019 CE.

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On October 6, 2019, Abrar Fahad, a second-year student in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) department at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), was murdered inside BUET's Sher-e-Bangla Hall by activists of Chhatra League, the student wing of then ruling party Awami League. The murder sparked national outrage and led to protests against campus violence. Out of 25 convicts, 20 were given death sentence and the other five were give life sentence in relation to the murder of Abrar Fahad following a highly publicized trial. An autopsy report later confirmed that Fahad died as a result of severe blunt force trauma.

Text from the Wikipedia article Murder of Abrar Fahad, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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