The young woman burned alive for denouncing the harassment of which she was a victim

Nusrat Jahan Rafi was sprayed with kerosene and burned in his school in Bangladesh in retaliation for the complaint he had lodged against his school director.

Two weeks ago, the girl had lodged a complaint of badual harbadment against the director of her school. Five days later, he was brutally burned, causing outrage in Bangladesh.

The case

Nusrat Jahan Rafi, 19, was born in Feni, a small town 160 km south of Dhaka, the country's capital. He grew up in a conservative family and attended a religious school, a madrbada.

Reporting a case of badual harbadment to a young woman in her position can have serious consequences, such as the pursuit of their communities, harbadment in person and on the Internet and, in some cases, violent attacks.

The young woman then revealed that on March 27, the school principal called her to her office and repeatedly touched her inappropriately. Before things got worse, he rushed out.

The young woman complained to the local police station. It should have been offered a safe environment, but Nusrat was recorded by a police officer with his phone while he was describing the harsh experience, a video that had been leaked and that had been intimidated by the director's supporters.

The case focused on the vulnerability of victims of badual harbadment in the conservative Asian country. Despite all this, on April 6, 11 days after the incident, Nusrat went to school to take his final exams. According to the statement made by Nusrat herself, a student took her to the roof of the school on the pretext that one of her friends was being beaten. . his older brother was going to accompany him and they did not allow him to enter.

When Nusrat reached the roof, four or five people, surrounded by burkas, surrounded her and pressured her to withdraw her complaint against the director. When she refused to do so, they burned her.

The head of the local police department, Banaj Kumar Majumder, said the killers wanted it to be a "suicide."

His plan failed when Nusrat was saved after fleeing the scene. He was able to testify before dying and identify the killers. "One of the badbadins was holding his head upside down, so the kerosene did not fall there and that's why his head did not burn," said Majumder to the Bengali service of the BBC.

But at the local hospital, doctors found burns that covered 80% of his body. Unable to treat such severe burns, Nusrat was transferred to Dhaka University Hospital.

In the ambulance, fearing she could not survive, she recorded a statement on her brother's cell phone. "The professor has touched me, I will fight this crime until my last breath," he said.

Since then, police have arrested 15 people, seven of whom are believed to be involved in the crime. Among those arrested are the two students who organized the event to support the director.

According to BBC Mundo, the director himself remains in detention. The police officer who registered Nusrat's complaint was removed from his post and transferred to another department.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina met with Nusrat's family in Dhaka and promised that all those involved in the crime would be brought to justice.

Source: BBC World