Youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi was shot by masked assailants on 12 December as he left a mosque
Violence broke out in Bangladesh’s capital early on Friday after a youth leader of the country’s 2024 pro-democracy uprising who was injured in an assassination attempt died in a hospital in Singapore.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Dhaka after the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, 32, was announced, to demand that his killers be arrested.
Several buildings in the capital, including those housing the country’s two leading newspapers, were set on fire, according to authorities, with staff trapped inside.
Hadi was a key figure in last year’s uprising that ended the autocratic rule of the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, and sent her fleeing to India. He was running for a parliament seat in the February 2026 national election.
