DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh police on Thursday freed six student leaders whose campaign against civil service job quotas sparked deadly nationwide unrest, as the government looked to calm tensions and forestall fresh demonstrations.
Student s Against Discrimination staged nationwide rallies last month that ended in a police crackdown and the deaths of at least 206 people, according to an Agence France-Presse count of police and hospital data.The group's leadership were among thousands picked up in the police dragnet that followed some of the worst unrest of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's 15-year tenure.
'Arbitrary and unlawful'Small and scattered protests resumed in cities around Bangladesh this week after other members of Students Against Discrimination ended a moratorium on demonstrations.They vowed to restart their campaign after the government ignored a Monday deadline for their leaders to be freed.'Their detention was arbitrary and unlawful. There was growing national and international criticism,' University of Oslo researcher Mubashar Hasan told AFP.
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