US EditionProtesters storm offices of leading Bangladesh dailies after a 2024 uprising activist dies
Violent protests erupted after Sharif Osman Hadi's death, with major media buildings torched and attacks nationwide, prompting government deployment of army and arrests of 14 suspects.
- On December 19, 2025, nationwide protests erupted after Sharif Osman Hadi died in Singapore General Hospital on Thursday, December 18, with thousands in Dhaka demanding justice.
- After the December 12 attack, Sharif Osman Hadi was airlifted to Singapore and transferred to Singapore General Hospital's Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit on December 15.
- Video shows flames at The Daily Star and Prothom Alo offices as at least 25 journalists were rescued after nearly four hours of chaos, with reporters describing suffocation inside.
- Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus announced one day of state mourning on Saturday, ordered flags at half-mast, and vowed that `no leniency will be shown` to perpetrators.
- Supporters alleged the killers fled to India and protesters staged demonstrations outside the Indian Assistant High Commission, Chattogram, while demonstrators chanted anti-India slogans and attacked Awami League offices across cities.
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The death of the student leader and aspiring deputy Sharif Osman Hadi unleashed violence in Bangladesh, where mobs of supporters set fire last night to diplomatic headquarters and major newspapers, sowing chaos in the capital, in what the interim government qualifies as a “sabotage” designed to derail the February elections. Hadi, 32 years old and a key figure in the uprising that overthrew the previous regime in 2024, died Thursday in a hospita…
Protests Erupt in Bangladesh After Student Leader Is Murdered by Masked Assailants
Protests have erupted across Bangladesh after the death of prominent youth activist Sharif Osman Hadi, a leader in last year’s uprising that ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Police and paramilitary forces have been deployed to the capital Dhaka and other cities, as hundreds of people took to the streets overnight Thursday. Last week, Hadi, an outspoken critic of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was shot in the head by masked…
An angry mob in Bangladesh set fire to the offices of two of the country's largest newspapers, Prothom Alo and The Daily Star, on Thursday. Violent protests in Dhaka have intensified again after Sharif Osman Hadi, a leader of last year's protests against then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, died of a gunshot wound on Thursday.
Church leaders condemn arson attack on top Bangladesh newspaper offices
A group set fire to the office of the country’s top Bangla newspaper, Prothom Alo, late on Dec. 19, 2025, to protest the killing of Sharif Osman Hadi, a front-line leader of a 2024 uprising in Bangladesh. / Credit: Dipu Malaker Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dec 19, 2025 / 13:24 pm (CNA). Catholic leaders in Bangladesh have condemned arson attacks on the offices of two of the country’s top newspapers and the homes of ousted Awami League leaders in protests …
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