Protesting students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) said Vice-Chancellor (VC) Prof Saiful Islam is set to meet them, and hold a discussion regarding the killing of Abrar Fahad at 5pm on Friday (Oct 11).
They confirmed the matter at a media briefing before starting the fifth consecutive day of protest in front of BUET Shaheed Minar around 11am on Friday.
One of the protestors said: "The VC is set to hold a discussion about Abrar's death at BUET auditorium at 5pm."
"He has requested us, and we pass on the same request to all the national media agencies as to not publish any live videos during our meeting."
The agitated students also requested the media to bring a maximum of two members from each agency to cover the discussion.
On Thursday (Oct 10), the protesting students threatened to lock down all the academic and administrative buildings of BUET if the VC failed to meet them by Friday.
Later, on the same day the VC Prof Saiful Islam agreed to meet them on Friday.
Abrar, a second-year student of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, was found dead in the stairway of the Sher-e-Bangla dormitory in the early hours of Monday (Oct 7).
He was beaten to death reportedly by the university BCL leaders for his Facebook status regarding the instruments signed between India and Bangladesh and for his alleged involvement with Islami Chhatra Shibir, Jamaat-e-Islami’s student wing.
Quoting the students of the dormitory, police said that he was called up from his room at 7:30pm on Sunday (Oct 6).
Later, his body was found on the first-floor stairway of the hall at 2am on Monday and post mortem reports showed that he was beaten of death.
His father filed a murder case against 19 people with Chawkbazar police station on Monday evening and BCL later expelled 11 of its members permanently from the organization.
The incident sparked nationwide protests with protesters demanding justice for Abrar and capital punishment for the killers.
So far, 17 arrests have been made in connection to the murder.
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