Bangladesh witnessed widespread violent protests on Thursday night (December 18, 2025) that continued into early hours of Friday (December 19, 2025), following the death of 32-year-old Sharif Osman Hadi, spokesperson of Inqilab Mancha and a prospective Dhaka-8 candidate. Sharif Osman Hadi had been shot in broad daylight last on December 12, 2025 while campaigning for the upcoming elections and succumbed to his injuries on Thursday night (December 18, 2025) at a hospital in Singapore.
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From the capital’s Shahbagh intersection to university campuses and major cities across the country, students, political activists, and members of the public staged marches, blockades, and demonstrations, demanding justice for Hadi. Leaders and activists of National Citizen Party (NCP), Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir (the student wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami), and Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) members took positions at Shahbagh and surrounding areas.
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Protesters raised slogans such as ‘Dilli na Dhaka, Dhaka Dhaka,’ ‘League dhoro, jelay bhoro,’ (Arrest Awami League and send them to jail) and ‘Amra shobai Hadi hobo, guli’r mukhe kotha kobo’ (‘We will all become Hadi, we will speak even in the face of bullets’), along with chants against what they described as Indian aggression. National Citizen Party (NCP) leaders Asif Mahmud, Mahfuj Alam, convener Nahid Islam, and Nasiruddin Patwari were present during the protests.
