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Adilur Rahman Khan

LeaderPerson

Human-rights advocate and interim-government adviser

A rights-monitoring figure who moved into transition governance.

He remained a prominent human-rights voice during the crackdown period and later served in the interim advisory structure.

Rights-monitoring discourse during and after July 2024.

His participation kept accountability and rights documentation central in public debate.

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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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Anu Muhammad

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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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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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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Fahim Ahmed

LeaderPerson

Grassroots & Digital Influencer

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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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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Farhad Mazhar

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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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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Grassroots & Digital Influencers

LeaderPerson

Grassroots & Digital Influencer

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nasiruddin Patwary

CoordinatorPerson

Students Against Discrimination coordinator, Jatiya Nagorik Committee convener, and National Citizen Party chief coordinator

A 2024 movement coordinator who later became Jatiya Nagorik Committee convener and National Citizen Party chief coordinator.

He is associated with Students Against Discrimination's coordination network during July-August 2024. After the uprising, he became convener of the Jatiya Nagorik Committee and later chief coordinator of the National Citizen Party.

Students Against Discrimination, the distributed coordination structures of the July-August 2024 movement, the Jatiya Nagorik Committee, and the post-uprising National Citizen Party.

His profile links the protest coordination network to later attempts to turn uprising-era civic organization into formal youth-led politics and state-reform advocacy.

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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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Pinaki Bhattacharya

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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