Hasan Syeed, the former husband of Dhaka University teacher Rumana Monzur, was found dead in a prison cell at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in the capital on Monday morning.
The 38-year-old Hasan was sent to the BSMMU prison cell on November 23 for treatment of his eyes, the family members said. The prisons directorate authorities as well as that of the
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Rumana now learns Braille
Dhaka University teacher Rumana Monzur, who flew to Canada for better treatment after she had been injured in the eyes allegedly by her husband Hasan Syeed on June 5, is now learning Braille to complete her studies in Vancouver, her family said.
Assistant professor of international relations in Dhaka University, Rumana, 33, also a student of
Rumana won’t see, ever
Surgery on her right eye also fails to raise any hope
Rumana Manzur is never going to see again.
Eye-surgeons of Vancouver General Hospital, Canada failed to restore the optical nerve in her right eye on Friday while hope for the left eye was already shattered.
A team of six eye-surgeons and several other eye-experts conducted an hour-long surgery on
No hope for left eye
Doctors say after surgery on Rumana
Dhaka University teacher Rumana Manzur will never regain her vision in the left eye, said opthalmologists of Vancouver General Hospital in Canada after conducting a surgery on Tuesday.
The eye-specialists have decided to operate on her right eye tomorrow, said Rashed Maqsood, a cousin of Rumana
Rumana files for daughter’s custody
Losing eyesight in the battering from husband, Dhaka University Assistant Professor Rumana Manzur now wants her only daughter Anushey to stay with her for the rest of life.
Rumana filed a case with a family court on June 30 to get her daughter’s custody, said her lawyer and family.
On Tuesday, she left for Canada for treatment of her eyes leaving Anushey at her mother’s
Efforts on to find treatment
DU offers legal aid to tortured teacher Rumana
With no treatment available in Bangladesh and India to restore Rumana Manzur’s eyesight, her family is now approaching eye specialists in developed countries hoping to find some treatment for her eyes there.
“We are contacting hospitals and eye specialists abroad. They might do something in a complicated situation like this,” said Rumana’s cousin
She sees daughter touching, talking
She was too tired to be visited by anyone else; she has had enough of visitors in her hospital cabin since morning. But she could not hold back her excitement sensing the presence of her daughter around her bed.
“Have you come, ma?” She stretched her arms to touch her child. “Where are you?”
Rumana Manzur moved her hands from side to side. She wished she could see. But not
All she wants is punishment
Rumana weeps, tells how she forgave husband upon numerous tortures
After doctors in Bangladesh and India have failed to restore Rumana Manzur’s eyesight, the Dhaka University teacher now has just one option open: waiting for a miracle.
“I don’t know what will happen with my eyes. Now everything depends on Allah,” a crying Rumana said yesterday
Rumana returns, sees nothing
“He has made my world dark. I can’t see my daughter.”
This was Dhaka University teacher Rumana Manzur lamenting before the media on her return from India yesterday after doctors expressed little hope of her getting back the eyesight.
“I came home [from Canada] after nine months to see my daughter. But I could not see her for
It’s untrue, nonsense
Rumana’s friends, acquaintances in Canada trash assaulter husband’s allegation against her
The accusation of infidelity made by Rumana Manzur’s husband is “nonsense,” and is an attempt to damage her reputation, her friends at her university in Canada and the Bangladeshi community there have said.
“I was shocked to learn that the untrue claims were made to try and divert attention away from the perpetrator of such a horrendous crime. It is my full hope that justice is served and that Rumana’s
No ray of light
Rumana likely to return home tomorrow as doctors in India find no cure for her eyes
Dhaka University Assistant Professor Rumana Manzur is expected to return from India tomorrow as doctors there have said there is little chance for her to get back eyesight, family sources said.
A medical board in Sankara Nethralaya, an eye hospital in Chennai where she was undergoing treatment, yesterday said no cure was available right now for the eyes badly damaged by her
Hope against hope for Rumana’s eyes
Doctors in India to give report today; assaulter Sumon confesses ‘bid to kill her’
Rumana Manzur, the Dhaka University teacher who was brutally assaulted by her husband, is coming back home as doctors in India could not give much hope about her eyes, said family sources.
The doctors are expected to give the official report today and until then the family cannot confirm whether Rumana has permanently lost her
One eye blinded, other in danger
Reports Indian medical board after checking Rumana; torturer husband remanded
The retina of one eye of Rumana Manzur, who was brutally assaulted by her husband, is not responding to her brain, and she has gone permanently blind in the other eye, said her family sources quoting a medical report.
A medical board formed for Rumana in Sankara Nethralaya in Chennai of India, where she is
Torturer Sumon caught
Claims wife Rumana cheated on him; her friend says doctors in India found grievous injuries to cornea, retinae of both eyes
Police yesterday arrested Hasan Sayeed Sumon, who tortured and damaged the eyes of his wife Rumana Manzur, an assistant professor of Dhaka University, 10 days ago.
Sumon was arrested at his relative’s house in the capital’s Mugda area around 2:10pm, soon after he came back to Dhaka from his hideout in Chittagong, said Md Monirul Islam, deputy commissioner
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
Rumana flies to India with hope to get eyesight back
After nine days of anguish and trauma, the barbarously assaulted Dhaka University teacher Rumana Manjur was flown to India yesterday for better treatment.
An assistant professor of international relations (IR) department, Rumana left for India with the hope of regaining her eyesight, said Prof Dr Delwar Hossain, chairman of the
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
Bhalobashi Mago Tokey
Rumana Islam’s latest album featuring inspirational songs
On the occasion of the Independence Day, Rumana Islam released her latest album “Bhalobashi Mago Tokey”, under the banner of Laser Vision. Among the ten songs featured in the album are — “Haire Amaar Mon Matano Desh”, “Bhalobashi Mago Tokey”, “Bot-er Chhaya Re”, “Jodi Aar Dekha Nai Hoye” and “Amar Shahitto Amar Shongskriti”. Khan Ataur Rahman, Munshi Wadud, Sadat Khaiyam, Ahmed Imtiaz Bulbul and