Online Desk  :  Six coordinators of Students Against Discrimination have been released by the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP). They were held in the custody of the Detective Branch (DB) over the last five days at Minto Road in the capital. Of the duration, they were on hunger strike up to 32 hours, said coordinator Nahid Islam and his father Badrul Islam. The coordinators left the DB office after 1:30pm on Thursday in presence of their relatives. Then the DB personnel send them to their respective houses by their vehicles.

Azhar Mukul, Additional Commissioner of DB’s Ramna Division, confirmed it to reporters. Earlier this morning, the DB office at Minto Road in Dhaka called in the families of the six coordinators.
The released coordinators were Nahid Islam, Asif Mahmud, Abu Baker Mazumder, Hasnat Abdullah, Sarjis Alam, and Nusrat Tabassum. Nahid Islam, Asif Mahmud and Abu Baker Mazumder of the Students Against Discrimination were picked up by DB from Ganashasthya Hospital at Dhanmondi in the capital on last Friday afternoon, while three others were taken to DB office on Saturday and Sunday.

Nahid’s father Badrul Islam said, “The families of all six coordinators were called in the DB office at Minto Road at 6:00am today (Thursday). Then the DB dropped the coordinators through their own transport systems. We reached our Badda residence with Nahid from the DB office.” Relatives of the coordinators said the DB dropped all the coordinators at their respective residences so that they could not talk to journalists.

On Friday (July 26) afternoon, the DB men picked up coordinators of Students Against Discrimination Nahid Islam, Asif Mahmud and Abu Baker Mazumder from Ganashasthya Nagar Hospital in the capital. Nahid and Asif were undergoing treatment at that time. On the following day (July 27), the DB picked up Sarjis Alam and Hasnat Abdullah, while another coordinator Nusrat Tabassum was picked up from the house of her relative at Mirpur on Sunday. Since then they had been kept at the Minto Road office of the DB.