Rumana flies for Canada with some hope for her eyes

Dhaka University teacher Rumana Monzur, who was blinded by her husband Hasan Syeed who tried to gouge out her eyes when he attacked her on June 5, flew back to Vancouver in Canada on Tuesday with a faint hope of regaining her vision, said family members.
A scholar of the University of British Columbia, Rumana, 33, assistant professor of the International

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Teachers, students want justice to Rumana

Dhaka University teachers, students, rights activists and people from all walks of life on Tuesday called upon the government to bring to book Hasan Syeed, who reportedly tortured his wife, a Dhaka University teacher leaving her grievously injured.
They formed a human chain and marched down the streets on the campus and accused the

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It’s all because of scholarship

DU teacher describes husband’s assault on her
“He pushed his fingers into my eyes,” a battered wife told newsmen yesterday how her sadistic husband made her suffer beyond belief, “And dragged me by my hair on the floor.”
Rumana Manjur was talking to the reporters at the city’s LabAid Hospital for the first time since she was injured in the torture at her father’s Dhanmondi residence on

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