Shots were fired in the head with sniper rifles, says July witnessA witness at the tribunal has said protesters in Dhaka's Jatrabari during last year’s July Uprising were shot in the head with sniper rifles on the day of the Awami League-led government’s fall. The witness, Ali Ahsan Junayed, is affiliated with a research institute and is the founding convenor of the post-Uprising political organisation United People's Bangladesh (UPB). Junayed, a former student of Dhaka University during the 2013 quota movement, described incidents from last year’s anti-quota movements. He recounted that during the protests from Jatrabari to Chittagong Road, over a hundred people were killed and several hundreds were injured. He claimed that police continued to fire at protesters from near the Jatrabari Police Station until 6pm.

Source: bd News24 September 21, 2025 21:52 UTC