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2024 Figures

Anti-Discrimination Movement

Full list of figures, martyrs, coordinators, and collectives associated with 2024.

Est. 1947 · BengalA Bilingual Archive

Full Figure List

53 profiles

Nahid Islam

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator; later interim-government adviser

From protest coordination to state transition, he became one of the movement’s central public figures.

A leading coordinator of Students Against Discrimination, he became one of the public faces of the 2024 quota-reform protests and later served as an adviser in the interim government formed in August 2024.

Dhaka University-linked student coordination; July-August 2024 protest phase and post-uprising transition.

His leadership linked street mobilization with the political transition after 5 August 2024.

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Sharif Osman Hadi

LeaderPerson

Student political activist, teacher, and Inquilab Mancha spokesperson

A visible organizer and speaker in the 2024 uprising who later remained active in post-uprising political debates.

He became a visible organizer and speaker in the 2024 student-citizen uprising, was identified with Inquilab Mancha as a spokesperson, and later remained active in public discussions around accountability, justice, reform, and sovereignty after the uprising.

Student political activism, teaching, Inquilab Mancha, the July-August 2024 student-citizen uprising, and post-uprising accountability and reform politics.

His role is linked to protest messaging, public mobilization, and the transition from street protest to post-uprising political demands around justice, reform, and national sovereignty.

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Asif Mahmud

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator; later interim-government adviser

A key coordinator who moved from detention-period pressure to post-uprising policy space.

Known as a core coordinator of the movement, he was among the student leaders detained by DB in late July 2024 and later joined the interim government adviser team.

Central student coordination, DB custody episode (26-28 July 2024), and post-uprising governance transition.

He remained a continuity figure between protest demands and institutional reform discourse.

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Sarjis Alam

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator and spokesperson

One of the movement’s most visible on-camera coordinators.

A nationally visible coordinator, he was among the student leaders taken into DB custody in July 2024 and became one of the most quoted public voices of the movement.

Nationwide anti-discrimination protests; detention and media-facing phase in July 2024.

He helped sustain public messaging during the movement’s most volatile period.

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Hasnat Abdullah

CoordinatorPerson

Visible coordinator of Students Against Discrimination, student political organizer, and post-2024 youth political voice

A visible student coordinator in the July 2024 movement who later remained active in youth political organizing.

He became a visible coordinator in the July 2024 quota reform and anti-discrimination movement, was taken into DB custody during the crackdown period, and remained active in post-2024 youth political organizing and reform discussions.

Students Against Discrimination, the July 2024 quota reform and student-citizen uprising, DB custody during the crackdown period, and post-2024 youth political organizing.

His role is associated with student coordination, movement continuity under repression, and the emergence of youth-centered political organizing after 2024.

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Abu Baker Majumder

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator

One of the six publicly cited coordinators in the July DB-custody episode.

He was among the nationally identified coordinators and one of the student leaders detained by DB in late July 2024.

Core student-leadership layer of the quota-reform movement.

His detention became part of wider concerns about coercion against protest coordinators.

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Abdul Hannan Masud

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator (Students Against Discrimination)

Part of the distributed coordinator network beyond a few national spokespersons.

Named in publicly reported coordination structures of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement during July-August 2024.

Movement committee expansion reports (including 158-member coordination announcement on 3 August 2024).

Represents institution-level and region-level organizing that sustained the nationwide protest network.

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Umama Fatema

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator (Students Against Discrimination)

Part of the distributed coordinator network beyond a few national spokespersons.

Named in publicly reported coordination structures of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement during July-August 2024.

Movement committee expansion reports (including 158-member coordination announcement on 3 August 2024).

Represents institution-level and region-level organizing that sustained the nationwide protest network.

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Arif Sohel

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator (Students Against Discrimination)

Part of the distributed coordinator network beyond a few national spokespersons.

Named in publicly reported coordination structures of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement during July-August 2024.

Movement committee expansion reports (including 158-member coordination announcement on 3 August 2024).

Represents institution-level and region-level organizing that sustained the nationwide protest network.

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Mahin Sarkar

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator (Students Against Discrimination)

Part of the distributed coordinator network beyond a few national spokespersons.

Named in publicly reported coordination structures of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement during July-August 2024.

Movement committee expansion reports (including 158-member coordination announcement on 3 August 2024).

Represents institution-level and region-level organizing that sustained the nationwide protest network.

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Rifat Rashid

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator (Students Against Discrimination)

Part of the distributed coordinator network beyond a few national spokespersons.

Named in publicly reported coordination structures of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement during July-August 2024.

Movement committee expansion reports (including 158-member coordination announcement on 3 August 2024).

Represents institution-level and region-level organizing that sustained the nationwide protest network.

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Nusrat Tabassum

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator

A key woman coordinator during the most contentious crackdown phase.

A female student coordinator publicly named among the six leaders held by DB in late July 2024 during the protest crisis.

Central coordination and rights-pressure period, July 2024.

Her presence highlighted women’s leadership in the movement’s core command layer.

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Lutfun Nahar Luma

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator (Students Against Discrimination)

Part of the distributed coordinator network beyond a few national spokespersons.

Named in publicly reported coordination structures of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement during July-August 2024.

Movement committee expansion reports (including 158-member coordination announcement on 3 August 2024).

Represents institution-level and region-level organizing that sustained the nationwide protest network.

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Hasib Al Islam

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator (Students Against Discrimination)

Part of the distributed coordinator network beyond a few national spokespersons.

Named in publicly reported coordination structures of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement during July-August 2024.

Movement committee expansion reports (including 158-member coordination announcement on 3 August 2024).

Represents institution-level and region-level organizing that sustained the nationwide protest network.

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Nasiruddin Patwary

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator in Students Against Discrimination and post-2024 youth political organizer

Part of the distributed coordination network during the 2024 movement, later associated with youth political organization and reform discussion.

He is associated with Students Against Discrimination's coordination network during July-August 2024 and later with youth political organizing and state-reform discussion after the uprising.

Students Against Discrimination, the distributed coordination structures of the July-August 2024 movement, and post-uprising youth political organization and reform discourse.

His profile is linked to the broader coordinator network that helped sustain the movement across institutions and to later youth-centered political discussion after 2024.

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Akhter Hossen

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator (Students Against Discrimination)

Part of the distributed coordinator network beyond a few national spokespersons.

Named in publicly reported coordination structures of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement during July-August 2024.

Movement committee expansion reports (including 158-member coordination announcement on 3 August 2024).

Represents institution-level and region-level organizing that sustained the nationwide protest network.

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Tariqul Islam

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator (Students Against Discrimination)

Part of the distributed coordinator network beyond a few national spokespersons.

Named in publicly reported coordination structures of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement during July-August 2024.

Movement committee expansion reports (including 158-member coordination announcement on 3 August 2024).

Represents institution-level and region-level organizing that sustained the nationwide protest network.

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Mehedi Hasan

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator (Students Against Discrimination)

Part of the distributed coordinator network beyond a few national spokespersons.

Named in publicly reported coordination structures of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement during July-August 2024.

Movement committee expansion reports (including 158-member coordination announcement on 3 August 2024).

Represents institution-level and region-level organizing that sustained the nationwide protest network.

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Sinthia Jaheen Ayesha

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator (Students Against Discrimination)

Part of the distributed coordinator network beyond a few national spokespersons.

Named in publicly reported coordination structures of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement during July-August 2024.

Movement committee expansion reports (including 158-member coordination announcement on 3 August 2024).

Represents institution-level and region-level organizing that sustained the nationwide protest network.

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Rashidul Islam Rifat

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator (Students Against Discrimination)

Part of the distributed coordinator network beyond a few national spokespersons.

Named in publicly reported coordination structures of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement during July-August 2024.

Movement committee expansion reports (including 158-member coordination announcement on 3 August 2024).

Represents institution-level and region-level organizing that sustained the nationwide protest network.

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