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Gonojagoron Mancha

Another activist stabbed

Staff Correspondent
Yet another Gonojagoron Mancha activist has come under attack.
Known for his fiery slogans during the
tumultuous days of the Shahbagh movement, Arif Noor was stabbed four times in the head by an unidentified gang at the capital's Paribagh around 12:30am yesterday.
Earlier on August 10, Tonmoy Ahmed Moon, a Shahbagh activist and a student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet), was stabbed allegedly by the cadres of Islami Chhatra Shibir in Gaibandha.
On February 15, blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider, also a Mancha activist, was hacked to death near his home at the capital's Mirpur
A playwright and member of cultural organisation Udichi's central committee, Arif Noor filed a case with Shahbagh
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Police Station yesterday against four to five unidentified persons.
His brother carried to the police station the case document, signed by Arif at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, said Officer-in-Charge Sirajul Islam.
As per the case statement, Arif was walking along the lane beside Motalib Plaza towards Paribagh footbridge. He was on his way to a friend's house in Basabo.
All of a sudden, four or five persons came out of a private car and stabbed him in his head.
Akash, an Udichi member, added that when a taxi driver came to Arifs rescue, the attackers fled.
The driver rushed him to Health and Hope Hospital at Panthapath. The victim was later shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Currently under observation, Arif had to have 20 stitches in the head, Akash told The Daily Star.
Soon after the attack, Arif called another Udichi member, Badhon Dhurbo, from his mobile phone.
Badhon said, "Arif had his laptop, mobile phone and wallet during the attack. The gang did not try to snatch those. So they cannot be just muggers."
No one has been arrested in this connection yet.
Yesterday afternoon,
protesting the attack, Gonojagoron Mancha held a rally in front of the National Museum at Shahbagh and Udichi demonstrated in front of the Jatiya Press Club.
The Gonojagoron Mancha also brought out a procession from Shahbagh around 7:00pm.
The Communist Party of Bangladesh in a statement termed the attack planned and demanded arrest of the attackers within 24 hours.
Radical Islamist elements have all along been running smear campaigns against Gonojagoron Mancha, formed in February to press for capital punishment to war criminals and a ban on Jamaat-Shibir for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
In the social media, websites and public sermons, the Islamists called for the killing of the organisers, activists and support-ers of Gonojagoron Mancha. They even prepared hit lists of pro-Shahbagh movement bloggers whom they labelled as "anti-Islam".
It could not be known whether Arif was on any of the hit lists. But his facebook activities show he often countered false claims and photoshopped images posted by different Islamist groups.