On Tuesday, several student outfits from across the nation took part in the rally while carrying the national flag and chanting slogans against ex-PM Sheikh Hasina.

After the fall of the autocratic leader on August 5, survivors of the regime's prison system resurfaced, and the interim government of Muhammad Yunus set up a commission to investigate enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings.

The Students Against Discrimination (SAD) group, that led the protests, called for changes in Bangladesh’s 1972 constitution

Thousands of people led by students in Bangladesh have called for the prosecution of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and those responsible for hundreds of deaths in a mass uprising against her