{"id":6675,"date":"2025-11-19T09:30:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=6675"},"modified":"2025-11-19T09:30:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:30:28","slug":"du-teacher-backs-ducsus-rafia-after-viral-confrontation-calls-police-conduct-unacceptable-disrespectful-and-abusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=6675","title":{"rendered":"DU Teacher Backs DUCSU\u2019s Rafia After Viral Confrontation, Calls Police Conduct \u201cUnacceptable, Disrespectful and Abusive\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dhaka University assistant proctor <strong>Shehrin Amin Bhuiyan Monami<\/strong> has publicly defended <strong>Umme Uswatun Rafia<\/strong>, an executive member of DUCSU, after a video of Rafia\u2019s heated exchange with police in Dhanmondi went viral on the day the tribunal delivered its verdict against Sheikh Hasina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a late-night Facebook post, Monami argued that Rafia is being disproportionately targeted because she <strong>visibly and confidently practices her religious identity<\/strong>. She contended that the same level of assertiveness from a non-hijabi student would likely have been applauded by segments of the \u201ccivil\u201d elite as an example of female empowerment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monami also criticized officers\u2019 behavior during the confrontation, describing it as <strong>\u201ccompletely unacceptable, disrespectful and abusive.\u201d<\/strong> She lamented that Rafia\u2019s firm response under pressure is not being recognized as empowerment, suggesting this stems from a <strong>narrow, choice-based view of feminism<\/strong> that dominates mainstream discourse in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The clip of the incident, which unfolded amid heightened tensions around the tribunal proceedings, sparked intense debate online, with many users blaming Rafia for challenging police at the scene. Monami\u2019s intervention adds an institutional voice to those calling for a more even-handed assessment of the episode\u2014both in how women\u2019s assertiveness is judged and how law enforcement actions are scrutinized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhaka University assistant proctor Shehrin Amin Bhuiyan Monami has publicly defended Umme Uswatun Rafia, an executive member of DUCSU, after a video of Rafia\u2019s heated exchange with police in Dhanmondi went viral on the day the tribunal delivered its verdict against Sheikh Hasina. In a late-night Facebook post, Monami argued that Rafia is being disproportionately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6684,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions\/6684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}