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Protest continues against rapes

Staff Correspondent

Protest against incidents of rapes continued on Monday in different parts of the country with demonstrators demanding punishment of rapists. 
Rights activists at Savar demanded exemplary punishment of the rapists of the college girl at Savar Bank Colony on November 24 as well as their accomplices.
The demonstrators submitted a memorandum to the upazila nirbahi officer.
More than a dozen of socio-cultural organisations held a rally in the Savar Upazila Parishad complex protesting the crime.
They expressed their solidarity with the victim’s family.
Mohila Parishad general secretary Parveen Islam, among others, took part in the rally.
New Age correspondent at Jahangirnagar University reports: JU teachers including vice-chancellor Anwar Hossain and students on Monday formed a human chain on the campus in demand of capital punishment of the rapists.
The protestors demanded justice for the rape victims and their families.
New Age correspondent in Pabna reports that rights activists from a human chain on Monday expressed solidarity with the families of rape victims of Dhaka, Tangail, and India.
They also demanded exemplary punishment of the rapists in both the countries.
Pabna Nari Nirjaton Protirod Network and Sammilito Nari Nirjaton Protirod Jote jointly organised the demonstration in front of the Pabna Press Club.



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