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A video of students tying up Chhatra league leaders at a Bangladeshi university amid quota protests in July was shared with false communal claims.
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India Today Fact Check
This video shows students in a Dhaka university tying up Chhatra League leaders amid the quota-reform protests. Chhatra League is the students’ wing of the Awami League, Sheikh Hasina’s party.
Amid violence and unrest in Bangladesh following the resignation of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, a video of burqa-clad women tying up other women by rope to a pillar went viral on social media. Those sharing it claimed that Muslim women in Bangladesh took Hindu women as hostages to be tortured and sold into sex slavery.
One person shared the video on Facebook writing, “Hinid(sic) women in Bangladesh are being taken hostage and sold by the Muslims that just came into power. Where is the outrage? Where are the protests?” Its archive can be seen here.
India Today Fact Check found that this video precedes Sheikh Hasina’s exit and shows students in a university in Dhaka, tying up leaders of the Chhatra League, the student wing of the Bangladesh Awami League, amid the quota-reform protests.
OUR PROBE
A reverse search of keyframes from the viral clip led us to the same video shared by a Facebook user on July 18. Its Bangla caption stated that the video was from Badrunnessa College. A Google search revealed that Begum Badrunnessa Government Girls’ College is located in Dhaka. At the time, many shared the viral clip stating that it is from the same college.
Further searches led us to several media reports about this incident. Four leaders of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (the student wing of the Bangladesh Awami League) were reportedly made to hold their ears and do sit-ups by student protesters at the Begum Badrunnessa Government Girls’ College. Additionally, student protesters tied two Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders to a pillar using ropes, a video of which went viral on social media.
As per reports, the incident took place on July 17 in the college dormitory. Students protesting against the quota reforms at the college tied up leaders of the Awami League students’ wing after an altercation. However, when teachers intervened, they were able to leave the college campus.
Habiba Akhtar Simon, the general secretary of the Chhatra League at this college reportedly left the campus before the incident occurred. Moreover, there were allegations against Simon and Selina Akhtar Shelly, the president of the Chatra League, of beating up college students in the past. This old grudge fueled anger among students who then punished the four student leaders present at the campus during the protest.
We also found videos of the four leaders doing sit-ups at the college campus along with other footage of this incident in Facebook posts from July 17.
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