As many as 60 former and current teachers of several universities have demanded the release of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir who has been in jail since December 9.
They issued a joint statement in this regard on Thursday, which was signed by Dhaka University’s Physics department Professor ABM Obaidul Islam.
The statement expressed concern over Fakhrul not being granted bail saying that they came to know from his family that he is sick and physicians consulted him to go abroad for better treatment.
“We are concerned over his health as friends and well-wishers,” it read, adding that Mirza Fakhrul has been practising politics to strengthen democratic structures of the country.
“We are demanding his release to make stronger and speed up the march of democracy in the country,” they said in the statement.
Prof Sirajul Islam, Prof Anowar Ullah Chowdhury, Prof Abul Kashem Fazlul Hoque, Prof Mahbub Ullah, Prof Wahiduddin Mahmud, Prof Ahmed Kamal, Prof Saidur Rahman and Prof Anu Muhammad, among others, expressed solidarity with the demand.
