Azizur Rahman Azad, a student leader from Islami Chhatra Shibir, wrote on Facebook that over 11,000 political cases are currently filed against their members. He said that in October, the party’s central leadership met with legal adviser Dr. Asif Nazrul, who promised to resolve the cases soon. However, Azad claims there has been no progress in the past eight months, and his passport application was repeatedly denied due to pending cases. Despite four visits to the Agargaon and Uttara passport offices, nothing was resolved until he secured a court order—twice. “Yesterday, I finally received a message: ‘Your passport is ready for delivery.’ If this is how I’m treated, imagine what the general public must go through,” he added. In a warning, he said, “Those sitting in power under the guise of reform are eroding citizens’ fundamental rights. If a mass uprising erupts, the responsibility will lie with these so-called advisers.”