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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

Md. Enamul 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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Abdullah Al Amin

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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Shadik Kayem

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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Tahmid Al Mudabbir

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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Barkat Hossain

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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Zaber Ahmed

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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Abu Sayed

MartyrPerson

Symbolic martyr

His death transformed a policy protest into a nationwide justice movement.

A Begum Rokeya University student activist, he was shot dead by police in Rangpur on 16 July 2024 during quota-reform protests.

Rangpur protest confrontation, 16 July 2024.

His killing became a major trigger for nationwide escalation and a defining symbol of the July uprising.

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Mir Mahfuzur Rahman Mugdho

MartyrPerson

Symbolic martyr

He was serving exhausted protesters when he was killed.

Mir Mugdho was shot in Uttara on 18 July 2024 while distributing food and water to protesters.

Azampur/Uttara protest zone, Dhaka, 18 July 2024.

He became a humanitarian symbol of the uprising and one of its most remembered civilian victims.

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Farhan Faiyaaz

MartyrPerson

Symbolic martyrs

Remembered in movement memory as part of the human cost of the crackdown.

Public reporting during July 2024 documented this person as a protest-period fatality.

July uprising casualty narratives and memorial references.

School-level youth victim remembered in protest casualty narratives.

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Wasim Akram

MartyrPerson

Symbolic martyrs

Remembered in movement memory as part of the human cost of the crackdown.

Public reporting during July 2024 documented this person as a protest-period fatality.

July uprising casualty narratives and memorial references.

Chattogram-linked student casualty cited in early crackdown reports.

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Faisal Ahmed Shanto

MartyrPerson

Symbolic martyrs

Remembered in movement memory as part of the human cost of the crackdown.

Public reporting during July 2024 documented this person as a protest-period fatality.

July uprising casualty narratives and memorial references.

Student casualty remembered among early protest martyrs in Chattogram.

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Yamin

MartyrPerson

Symbolic martyrs

Remembered in movement memory as part of the human cost of the crackdown.

Public reporting during July 2024 documented this person as a protest-period fatality.

July uprising casualty narratives and memorial references.

MIST student casualty whose death circulated widely across social media.

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Riya Gope

MartyrPerson

Symbolic martyrs

Remembered in movement memory as part of the human cost of the crackdown.

Public reporting during July 2024 documented this person as a protest-period fatality.

July uprising casualty narratives and memorial references.

Child civilian victim remembered as a symbol of non-combatant suffering.

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Shaheed Rudro

MartyrPerson

Symbolic martyrs

Remembered in movement memory as part of the human cost of the crackdown.

Public reporting during July 2024 documented this person as a protest-period fatality.

July uprising casualty narratives and memorial references.

Student martyr cited in local commemorations of the July movement.

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Tahmid Abdullah

MartyrPerson

Symbolic martyrs

Remembered in movement memory as part of the human cost of the crackdown.

Public reporting during July 2024 documented this person as a protest-period fatality.

July uprising casualty narratives and memorial references.

Student casualty associated with the shutdown-phase confrontation in Dhaka.

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Zahid Hossain

MartyrPerson

Symbolic martyrs

Remembered in movement memory as part of the human cost of the crackdown.

Public reporting during July 2024 documented this person as a protest-period fatality.

July uprising casualty narratives and memorial references.

Young protest casualty linked to Jatrabari-area clashes.

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Dr. Muhammad Yunus

LeaderPerson

Interim government chief adviser

Student-nominated transition leadership made him the bridge figure after the uprising.

After Sheikh Hasina’s resignation in August 2024, student coordinators nominated Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to lead Bangladesh’s interim government.

Post-uprising transition; oath on 8 August 2024.

He became the institutional face of the transition from street uprising to interim governance.

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Zonayed Saki

LeaderPerson

Former chief coordinator of Ganosamhati Andolon, left-democratic politician, and reform-oriented political voice

A left-democratic political voice associated with voting rights, state reform, national resources, and civic rights.

From student politics to the leadership of Ganosamhati Andolon, he has been active around national resource protection, voting rights, civic rights, state reform, and post-2024 political transition debates.

Bangladesh Student Federation, Ganosamhati Andolon, left-democratic politics, national resource protection movements, voting-rights movements, Ganatantra Mancha, state-reform debates, and post-2024 political transition discussions.

His political role is linked to alternative political platforms, civic movements, electoral reform, democratic accountability, and state-reform debates in Bangladesh.

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Sheikh Hasina

LeaderPerson

Awami League leader and prime minister during the 2024 uprising

As prime minister, she led the Awami League government during the July-August 2024 crackdown and resigned on 5 August 2024 after the student-led uprising reached a decisive national rupture.

Bangladesh politics from the anti-Ershad movement through the 2024 Anti-Discrimination Movement and post-resignation transition.

Her resignation turned the protest wave into a state-transition moment and made accountability for protest repression a central public question.

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Manzur Al Matin

LeaderPerson

Influential Supporters & Intellectuals

Part of the wider civic-information ecosystem surrounding the uprising.

During the 2024 uprising period, this figure was publicly associated with commentary, advocacy, reporting, or civic support aligned with protest concerns.

Public discourse around accountability, rights, and governance transition in 2024.

Helped shape public interpretation, documentation, or civic momentum around the movement.

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