Police picked up 12 students of Barishal University Thursday noon as they tried to gather on the campus to observe the "Remembering Our Heroes" programme announced by Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.
University coordinator of the platform Sujoy Shuvo and co-coordinator M H Tamal were among them.
AR Mukul, officer-in-charge (OC) of Bandar police station, said they took the students into custody for security purposes.
Meanwhile, since the establishment of the university, although there was no committee of the BCL on the campus, a section of the BCL activists took position on the campus. They said that they took position so that no one can create anarchy on the campus.
The Anti-Discrimination Students’ Movement announced the nationwide campaign titled "Remembering Our Heroes," on Wednesday in response to the mass killings, widespread arrests, attacks, cases of enforced disappearances, and the assaults on teachers that occurred in connection with the quota reform movement across the country.
It also demanded an investigation by the United Nations and fulfilling the nine-point demands of the students.