Bangladeshi student Maymuna Islam Nuha
Noman Sabit: University authorities have expelled 8 students including Bangladeshis from the world-famous Columbia University for participating in the protest rally against Israel’s indiscriminate massacre in Gaza. 6 students including the roommate of Bangladeshi student Maymuna Islam Nuha have been arrested on the same charge. Nuha’s father Monir Hossain confirmed this.
Monir Hossain, a resident of Brooklyn, New York, said that recently the world-famous Columbia University authorities expelled 8 students as part of the protest that the students of various educational institutions of the United States are protesting against Israel’s indiscriminate genocide in Gaza. Among them is his daughter Maymuna Islam Nuha.
He said his daughter Nuha worked as a front line fighter protester internationally against Israel’s indiscriminate massacre in Gaza. Monir said that 6 students including Nuha’s roommate and Isra Hirsi, daughter of Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Abdullahi Omar, have been arrested for their involvement in the incident.
Nuha is doing a job in the university along with studying in the third semester of Neuroscience with a full scholarship. He mentioned that Nuha was hiding to avoid arrest.
Isra Hirsi, daughter of Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Abdullahi Omar
Nuha was not mentally broken in this incident. Still bravely marching with companions on the Columbia University campus in New York. With their protest, the students of many universities in the United States, including Harvard, MIT, another world-renowned educational institution, are increasingly joining the movement for humanity. They are demanding the withdrawal of Israeli funding from American university research. They are demanding an immediate end to the genocide in Gaza. Many in the Jewish community also expressed solidarity with them. Nuha’s father Monir Hossain’s house is in Sadwip Upazila of Chittagong District, Bangladesh.
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