Dhaka — August 22, 2025:
Transgender student Sahara Chowdhury has demanded reinstatement at Metropolitan University, Sylhet, calling her August 13 expulsion “unconstitutional” and alleging the university acted without due process or a disciplinary hearing. Speaking at a press conference at the Dhaka Reporters’ Unity on Thursday, Sahara said she was expelled after publishing satirical cartoons of Mohammad Sorowar Hossain (associate professor, Independent University, Bangladesh) and Asif Mahtab Utsha (lecturer, Manarat International University). She accused the two academics of doxxing LGBT people and campaigning to block recognition of transgender martyrs of the July uprising in official records.
Sahara rejected claims that she threatened other students or endangered anyone by revealing a bus schedule, saying her comments were distorted. She said she only noted that she typically waits near Tilagor Overbridge, that her campus is in Peerer Bazar, and that she generally uses public buses, not the university bus.
Calling the lifetime expulsion “unconstitutional,” Sahara said she is seeking reinstatement, compensation, and equal standards of free expression for minority voices on campus.
Source:
The Business Standard — Expelled transgender student demands reinstatement at Metropolitan University in Sylhet (22 Aug 2025). The Business Standard
