Memory deserves a record.
Justice for Hadi is a memorial and documentation project about Sharif Osman Hadi, the wider history of Bangladesh’s July 2024 uprising, and the continuing public record of the pursuit of justice.
Remembering a life, understanding a movement, and keeping claims connected to the sources behind them are related responsibilities. Each has its own place in this record.
Why this exists
Public memory is sustained by more than remembrance. It needs dates, testimony, documents and context that readers can return to. When records are scattered across publications and platforms, even basic questions become difficult to follow over time.
This project brings public material into a traceable account. It records where an account came from, what it can establish, and what remains unsettled. The archive is incomplete; its value depends on making those limits visible rather than filling them with certainty.
To remember responsibly is to leave a path back to the record.
One life, a wider history
In memory of Hadi
Sharif Osman Hadi’s life, public work, death and the continuing case record are central subjects here. His story is told in the Hadi overview, with a sourced account of his life, his political journey and his legacy.
Beyond one life
The July 2024 uprising belongs to a much wider historical record: students, organizers, volunteers, those killed or injured, their families, and people whose contributions are less often named. Its history and accountability questions must be documented on their own terms, not as a backdrop to one person’s biography. Begin with the July archive or its account of the uprising.
Four connected areas
The site separates a human life, a case, a national uprising and the material used to document them.
How a claim enters the record
A citation is a way to inspect a claim, not a guarantee that every statement in a source is true.
Find
Identify an original publication or recording and who issued it.
Describe
Record its title, publisher, type and date when available.
Connect
Link a public claim or event to the source that bears on it.
Qualify
State what the source shows, what it only reports, and where accounts differ.
Revisit
Update a record when a better source, legal decision or correction warrants it.
The public source catalogue records original addresses and publication details. Existing claim, event and case records connect many citations to the statements they support or question. Source type describes origin; it does not confer a truth score.
A complete capture history and universal source-level retrieval dates are not yet in the catalogue. Some reported documents are known only through descriptions, without an authenticated copy held here. Those limits are stated in the relevant records.
Cross-checking and editorial review remain necessary as the record grows. The site does not claim that every historical assertion has passed one uniform verification process.
Read the full research methodology for how sources, claims, legal records and corrections are handled.
What the evidence can say
An authenticated court record can establish that a filing was made or an order issued; it does not prove every allegation quoted inside it. Journalism can establish what was reported and by whom. A firsthand account may illuminate an event while still requiring context and corroboration. Interpretation is identified as such.
The site distinguishes established facts, attributed reports, allegations, disputed accounts, court records and commentary in ordinary language. Arrest and charge are procedural steps, not findings of guilt. Relevant denials and contrary evidence belong beside a claim when they are documented.
The justice record follows investigations and proceedings without taking the place of investigators or a court. Its legal descriptions must change when verified developments change the record.
Keeping the context with the material
The archive indexes documents, reporting, photographs, video and audio that bear on this history. Each public entry should make its origin and context clear. An original record is distinct from a transcription, translation, thumbnail or redacted version made to help readers use it.
Indexing a work does not grant permission to reproduce it. Some items are linked to the publisher, described through metadata, or withheld from display when rights or safety are unresolved. Where the project does not hold a copy, it says so. Creator credit and applicable permission matter as much as the ability to find a file.
Accuracy and human dignity
Corrections are part of the record
Factual errors, misattributed sources and outdated legal descriptions require review and correction. A meaningful change should be explained while the earlier editorial history is retained appropriately. Conflicting sources and unresolved questions should be visible, rather than quietly resolved by wording alone.
There is not yet a public correction submission channel. A documented intake and response process remains to be established. Read the corrections account and the editorial standards for how publication decisions are presented while that process is developed.
People before completeness
The record must respect bereaved families, injured survivors, minors and vulnerable witnesses. Private contact details, identifiers, medical information and restricted case material do not become public merely because they might add detail. Graphic violence is never an illustrative device. Rights and safety can require an item to remain metadata-only or unpublished.
The same care applies to creators: an online image or recording is not automatically free to reuse. Requests concerning attribution, rights or removal call for human review.
A record worth returning to.
Memory leads to the people of July, to loss, to evidence, and to the questions justice must address. Persistence means keeping those parts connected even when the available record changes.
This project aims to remain useful to future readers by retaining context, source trails and visible uncertainty. This public documentation effort does not claim to represent Hadi’s family, Inqilab Moncho, July participants, investigators or a court. Its governance and affiliations have not been confirmed for publication here.
What can be known should be traceable. What remains unresolved should remain in view.
Explore the project
Explore Hadi
The life and legacy.
Explore July
The wider historical record.
Follow the justice record
Case and proceedings.
Visit the archive
Sources and historical material.