Police in Bangladesh ban all public gatherings in the capital Dhaka on Friday, reports AFP. The ban - which will apply throughout the day - is being introduced to ensure "public safety".
- We have banned all demonstrations, processions and public gatherings, says Habibur Rahman, commissioner, to AFP.
Violent student protests have been ongoing for weeks since the beginning of July and are directed against a quota system for public sector employment.
Later on Friday, police announced that a leader of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) had been arrested in Dhaka.
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The death toll rises to 39 – a hundred police officers injured
The unrest in Bangladesh continues, several media reports. The death toll is now said to be 39, and the number of injured is over 700. Several buildings were set on fire on Thursday and Friday, including police stations and the offices of a television channel.
- About 100 police officers were injured in the clashes yesterday, Faruk Hossain, spokesman for the capital's police force, told AFP.
Based on descriptions from hospital staff, the police have caused at least two-thirds of the deaths reported so far, the news agency writes.
The increasingly violent student protests that have raged in Bangladesh since early July are targeting a public sector recruitment system.
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The students' ultimatum: Turn the internet back on
Bangladesh's government has shut down mobile internet throughout the country in the wake of the violent student protests, AFP and Bangladesh's Daily Sun report.
Now the protesters are demanding that the network be switched on by 10 o'clock on Friday morning at the latest, writes the Daily Sun. Otherwise, they block the entrance to the leading telecom operator Grameenphone again, as they did for a couple of hours on Thursday.
- The Internet is part of human rights, says Mohiuddin Ahmed from the consumer organization BMPCA.
The increasingly violent student protests that have erupted this week are targeting a public sector recruitment system, according to AFP.
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