The New Nation - Internet Edition

DU Correspondent

The students of Dhaka University declared that they will 'gherao' (lay siege) the Vice Chancellor office on January 21 as part of their ongoing movement to get the detained teachers and students released.

Addressing a press conference at the Modhu's canteen yesterday, students under the banner of 'Chhatra Bandhu" declared this saying the VC is not sincere to see the detainees freed.

Besides, the students of the university under different banners are continuing their movement even amid vacation holding different programes including human chain, silent procession and the protest cultural function.

Meanwhile, the students of Bangladesh University of

Engineering and Technology (BUET) for the first time took out a silent procession on the campus in response to the call of the DU students to press home for the freeing the jailed teachers and students.

A group of 50 to 60 students of Bio-Chemistry Department of the university brought out a silent procession from Curzon Hall area yesterday morning while some students under the banner of 'Student movement for protesting repression' observed similar programme at the foot of Aparajeyo Bangla.

Another group of students under the banner of 'Anti-repression students' held a protest rally on the campus yesterday afternoon.

DU VC Prof SMA Faiz said that he was hoping the teachers would be freed soon as he was trying his best to see the freedom of his colleagues and students.

Meanwhile, Prof Faiz met the Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed in the evening and discussed the issue.

He told media that the detained teachers and a student would be released within a week.