{"id":4835,"date":"2008-09-14T08:54:05","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T08:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/?p=4835"},"modified":"2015-06-16T08:54:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T08:54:51","slug":"sexual-harassment-jahangirnagar-university-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/2008\/09\/14\/sexual-harassment-jahangirnagar-university-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual Harassment at the Jahangirnagar University Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ASK Condemns JNU Syndicate\u2019s Decision<\/strong><br \/>\nEmbargoed till 14 September 2008<\/p>\n<p>Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) seriously condemns the Jahangirnagar University Syndicate\u2019s decision discharging\u00a0 the accused teacher, Sanwar Hossain, of the Drama and Dramatics Department from all allegations of sexual harassment. Press reports state that the Syndicate in its most recent meeting found \u201cthe accused teacher was discharged of the allegations due to the lack of proof beyond a reasonable doubt\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>ASK believes that this disturbing decision will undermine the university\u2019s image and set a frustrating precedent regarding teacher-student relationship. In this case not just one but four students of the Department had lodged identical complaints against the teacher in question. In these kinds of incidents, over reliance on technical rules of evidence may prevent justice being done.\u00a0 There had been an expectation that Jahangirnagar University would follow the path of justice rather than rigidity of procedure.<\/p>\n<p>ASK is seriously concerned by the discharge of the accused teacher in the circumstnaces and believes this amounts to injustice to the victims. We demand publication of the full proceedings of the Syndicate meeting and the report of the Investigation Committee topave the way to justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASK Condemns JNU Syndicate\u2019s Decision Embargoed till 14 September 2008 Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) seriously condemns the Jahangirnagar University Syndicate\u2019s decision discharging\u00a0 the accused teacher, Sanwar Hossain, of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-statement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4836,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835\/revisions\/4836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}