The family of Ishtiaq Ahmed Srabon says he was killed while joining the anti-discrimination student movement in Feni on August 4, 2024. He was among students and residents demonstrating beneath the Mohipal flyover on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway when armed Awami League, Jubo League and Chhatra League activists allegedly attacked, according to the family. They said Srabon was hit by six bullets and was declared dead at Feni General Hospital after friends took him there.

Relatives said Srabon regularly joined the movement with friends and wore one of his mother’s scarves on his head, along with a jersey bearing his name. He had passed HSC from Feni Government College in 2023 and was preparing for university admission. The eldest of three siblings and the family’s only son, he was also vice-president of the Feni district committee of the National Children’s Taskforce and an active Feni Cricket Academy member, a friend said.

His parents demanded implementation of the July Charter and swift justice for those involved in the killing. They alleged pressure was exerted to bury him quickly and said many accused have not been brought under the law. Srabon’s mother filed a murder case at Feni Model Police Station naming 105 people, including former lawmaker Nizam Uddin Hazari, as well as more than 100 unidentified individuals.