The family of Shaheed Rabiul Islam Rahul, who was shot dead during the July-August mass movement, has demanded a swift trial for those involved in his killing. In a report published on August 3, 2026, relatives also asked the government to arrange employment for Rahul’s elder brother because of the family’s financial hardship. Rahul was the youngest of three sons of Md Muslim Uddin and Farida Begum from Bidurshahi village in Fazilpur union of Dinajpur Sadar upazila.

According to the family, Rahul was shot while joining an Anti-Discrimination Student Movement programme near Kachari intersection beside Dinajpur city’s Judge Court on August 4, 2024. They say he sustained 19 bullet wounds. He was treated first at Dinajpur General Hospital and then Dinajpur Medical College Hospital. After initially returning home, he was hospitalised again on August 7 as his condition worsened and died in intensive care on the evening of August 9.

His father said Rahul’s elder brother, Faridul Islam, filed a case, but no one has been arrested so far. The family owns only a five-and-a-half-decimal homestead and no farmland. Muslim Uddin, formerly a vegetable and fish seller, says trauma, illness and heart problems have left him unable to work.