| Charges are against conscience of nation: Prof Anwar | | | | Wed, Jan 16th, 2008 7:21 pm BdST | | |
Dhaka, Jan 16 (bdnews24.com) – Detained Dhaka University teacher Anwar Hossain said Wednesday that charges pressed against them were actually against the "conscience of the nation".
"The case against us is not ordinary. We—the four teachers and one student present in court—and 14 other fugitive students are not the real accused. It's Dhaka University that has been put in the dock."
"The accused are the conscience of the nation," Prof Anwar told a court in the capital where he defended himself against the charges of emergency rules violations during the days of campus violence in August.
The teacher said an intelligence agency was playing the main role in the issues tied to the August violence.
"It seems a Shahbag police official is the complainant of the case. But we know and the people know who the main forces were—against the conscience of the nation, against Dhaka University and against the teachers and students," he said.
"The members of the military intelligence agency have played the main role in framing charges. Not only that, they even attend this court regularly," Anwar alleged.
He said the charges were meant to malign the "conscience of the nation".
His statement came in the court of metropolitan magistrate M Golam Rabbani during the hearing of the defence statements by the accused.
Anwar read out a 10-page statement to the court where he described the context of the Aug violence.
He said they were no way responsible for the violence and they had just stood by the students against injustice.
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