However, coordinators of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement said on Friday that they had no plan to hold talks with the government; overnight, they called a nationwide street protest and all-out non-cooperation or civil disobedience campaign. One of the six coordinators who were earlier detained for their “own safety” in detective police custody and freed after they announced the withdrawal of their movement on Friday said they were forced to give the statement.

“When we were detained in the office, we were asked to meet with the Prime Minister and suspend the movement. There was even a plan to take us to Ganobhaban forcibly,”  one of the coordinators Asif Mahmud said in a Facebook post. “We are ready to pay the price of an uncompromising stance, even if it means death. We call for the participation of every citizen of Bangladesh in the student-citizen uprising,” Asif wrote. Hasina’s call comes a day after new protests erupted on Friday, leaving two people dead and more than 100 injured as over 2,000 protesters gathered in parts of the capital, some shouting “down with the autocrat” and demanding justice for victims.

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