The historical record
Sources, documents and statements preserving the life of Sharif Osman bin Hadi, the July uprising and the continuing record of justice — each kept with where it came from.
190 sources · 20 documents · 10 statements · records from 1993 to 2026
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- None yet
What the archive preserves
Much of what is known about Sharif Osman bin Hadi, about July 2024 and about the case that followed his death exists in places that do not last: news pages that move or close, social posts that are deleted, videos taken down, photographs that circulate without the name of the person who took them.
The archive keeps that material together with what makes it usable as history: who made it, when and where, where it was published, what it shows, and which events and people it concerns. A record is kept apart from the claims made about it, so that what a document says is never confused with what it proves.
Today the archive is a catalogue. It records the sources, documents and statements the site relies on and links to each at its original address. It reproduces nothing whose creator and permission to publish are not documented, and has not yet made archived copies; both are stated below rather than hidden.
What historical material has the project preserved?
Sources, documents, statements and, as their rights are documented, photographs, film and recordings, across his life, July 2024 and the case.
What evidence and documents exist in the Hadi murder case?
The records of the case only, each with what it can and cannot establish and how it bears on each claim.
A record can be both: a court order is an archive document and part of the case’s evidence. It is catalogued once and linked from both. For the case, see Evidence & Documents.
The archive by type
Six catalogues, each with its own page. What is catalogued is counted from the records; what cannot yet be shown says why.
Catalogued records
Documents
20 documents
Court orders, charge sheets, petitions, judgments, official reports and statements: what each is, who issued it and how the archive holds it.
3 linked at an official address · 17 known only from reports
News Archive
27 reports
Reporting on his life, July 2024 and the case, cited by outlet, headline and publication date. Articles are linked, never reproduced.
27 of the 190 sources have curated news archive records
Sources
190 sources
Every published source the site cites, with its publisher, date, language and type: the research backbone of every page.
From 43 publishers · 19 in Bangla
Photographs, film and recordings
Photos
41 published
Photographs of his life, of July 2024 and of remembrance, each captioned with its date, place, creator and permission.
Each with its creator, its source and the licence or permission it is shown under.
Videos
3 catalogued
Sourced speeches and public statements on film, with viewing mode, rights and transcript status recorded.
Original recordings are embedded or linked; no video file is held locally. The statement index also describes 1 video statement known from newspaper reports.
Audio
5 catalogued
Sourced sound recordings with their publisher, rights, context and transcript status recorded.
Publisher-hosted documentary audio is linked without a local copy. 6 speeches are known separately from newspaper reports; Hadi’s documented speech recording remains in Videos.
Historical collections
Each collection is a set of records the site keeps — dated events, statements, records of remembrance, proceedings — with every source those records cite.
His life
From his childhood in Jhalokathi through university, teaching, July 2024, Inqilab Moncho and the Dhaka-8 campaign, as dated events.
16 dated events · 18 sources
In his own words
Speeches, addresses and posts as newspapers reported them, with each quotation exactly as it was printed.
10 statements · 17 sources
July 2024
The uprising from the quota ruling to the fall of the government and the days after, as dated events with the reports of the time.
102 dated events · 43 sources
The attack, his death and the mourning
The shooting on 12 December 2025, the six days of treatment, his death in Singapore and the funeral, in plain dated entries without images.
10 dated events · 10 sources
Remembrance and legacy
The funeral and burial, memorial gatherings, the proposal to name a university hall after him, demonstrations for justice and claims about him that were checked.
14 records of remembrance · 34 sources
The Hadi murder case
The investigation and the court process as procedural events, and the catalogue of the documents, statements and evidence known to exist.
12 procedural events · 35 catalogued records · 47 sources
Accountability for July
Investigations, trials and judgments over the violence of July, with the documents of each proceeding and what remains open.
6 proceedings · 13 documents · 30 sources
Collections overlap. A source cited by several of them appears in each, but it is one record in the catalogue: the 7 collections draw 199 times on 190 sources.
Through time
The eras of the timeline, from his birth to the court process today. Each opens on its dated events and their sources.
- 01
Early life
1993 – 2010 · Jhalokathi
2 dated events · 3 sources
- 02
University, teaching and writing
2010 – 2024 · Dhaka
3 dated events · 3 sources
- 03
The July uprising
July – August 2024
2 dated events · 3 sources · the uprising itself in the July archive
- 04
After July: Inqilab Moncho
2024 – 2025 · Dhaka
5 dated events · 6 sources
- 05
Dhaka-8
April – December 2025
4 dated events · 6 sources
- 06
12 December 2025
Box Culvert Road, Dhaka
1 dated event · 3 sources
- 07
Six days
12 – 18 December 2025 · Dhaka and Singapore
3 dated events · 3 sources
- 08
18 December 2025
Singapore
1 dated event · 2 sources
- 09
Mourning and burial
18 – 20 December 2025 · Dhaka
5 dated events · 5 sources
- 10
The investigation
14 December 2025 – 6 January 2026
5 dated events · 7 sources
- 11
Before the court
From January 2026 · Dhaka
7 dated events · 16 sources
People in the record
The registers the site publishes, each person with dates, places and sources. Only people the registers already publish are counted; no private person is named here.
Sharif Osman bin Hadi
শরীফ ওসমান বিন হাদী
His life, his words, his death and the case that followed: the person at the centre of the archive.
July Heroes
People whose part in the uprising is publicly recognised and documented.
11 profiles
Unsung Heroes
People whose part was substantial but little recognised.
7 profiles
Martyrs
The register of people who died, with when, where and what is known of how.
9 entries
Injured & Survivors
People injured in the uprising who survived, from their public accounts.
3 entries
Accused & Case Actors
The people in the Hadi case and their roles; any legal status is dated and sourced.
13 people
Documents on record
20 documents on Hadi, the case and July: 3 linked at an official address, 17 known only from the reports that describe them. None is reproduced or previewed.
The 5 most recent, by the date of the document
Order refusing bail to Saheda Parveen
- High Court Division, Supreme Court of Bangladesh
- Not held — known from reports: The Business Standard, 26 July 2026
Judgment: The killing of Abu Sayed, Rangpur
- International Crimes Tribunal-2, Dhaka
- Not held — known from reports: The Business Standard, 9 April 2026; Dhaka Tribune, 9 April 2026; Prothom Alo, 9 April 2026
Formal charges: The killings in Chattogram, July 2024
- International Crimes Tribunal-1, Dhaka
- Not held — known from reports: The Business Standard, 5 April 2026
Judgment: The killings at Ashulia police station, Savar
- International Crimes Tribunal-2, Dhaka
- Not held — known from reports: Prothom Alo, 5 February 2026; New Age, 5 February 2026
Appeal: The killings at Chankharpul, Dhaka
- Filed with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court
- Not held — known from reports: The Business Standard, 1 February 2026
6 documents belong to the Hadi case. What each can establish, and how it bears on each claim, is set out in Evidence & Documents.
Reporting, as it was published
The reports the site relies on, cited by outlet, headline and date of publication. Articles are linked at their original address; their text is not reproduced.
| Year | Reports | In Bangla |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | 2 |
| 2025 | 17 | 1 |
| 2026 | 6 | 0 |
27 reports in all; No reports do not state a date of publication and are not counted by year.
The 5 most recently published
- DU removes student-installed ‘Shaheed Osman Hadi Hall’ nameplate from Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Hall
The Business Standard · 30 September 2026 · English · tbsnews.net
Original address only · no archived copy held
- Osman Hadi murder: Court defers submission of supplementary report to 3 November
The Business Standard · 27 September 2026 · English · tbsnews.net
Original address only · no archived copy held
- Former ASI Amir, ex-constable Sujan to walk gallows for Abu Sayed killing
The Business Standard · 9 April 2026 · English · tbsnews.net
Original address only · no archived copy held
- Osman Hadi murder: Two including prime accused Faisal arrested in India
Prothom Alo English · 8 March 2026 · English · en.prothomalo.com
Original address only · no archived copy held
- Plaintiff files no-confidence petition against DB chargesheet in Osman Hadi murder case
The Business Standard · 15 January 2026 · English · tbsnews.net
Original address only · no archived copy held
Ordered by the date each report gives itself — when it was published, not when the events it describes took place, and not when the archive added it.
The source catalogue
Every published source cited anywhere on the site: 190 sources from 43 publishers, 19 of them in Bangla. Each appears once, however many pages cite it.
| Type | Sources | In Bangla |
|---|---|---|
| Official statement | 1 | 0 |
| UN report | 2 | 0 |
| Rights organisation record | 6 | 0 |
| Original video | 3 | 1 |
| Original audio | 5 | 0 |
| News report | 156 | 16 |
| News profile | 10 | 1 |
| Analysis | 1 | 0 |
| Opinion | 2 | 0 |
| Fact-check | 1 | 0 |
| Reference compilation | 2 | 0 |
| Bookseller listing | 1 | 1 |
Who published them
- 4 sources
- 183 sources
- 3 sources
A tier describes who published a source, not whether a claim in it is true. Tier E compilations are leads to the original publication, never evidence on their own.
Photographs, film and recordings
41 photographs are reproduced; 3 videos are and 5 audio recordings are catalogued with original source links.
The photographs are catalogued on Photos, each with its creator, the page where it is published and its licence, and linked to the events, people and pages it belongs to.
The video archive holds 3 source-linked records. Approved platform recordings can be watched through an embed; the original files remain with their publishers.
The audio archive catalogues 5 publisher-hosted episodesabout July 2024. No audio file is held locally, and none is presented as a contemporary recording of July events.
Other photographs of Hadi appear elsewhere on the site as working material, credited “source and reuse rights not yet documented”. Until their creators and permission are documented, they are not catalogued here, and the archive shows no image in their place.
His spoken words are known from print. The statement record holds 6 speeches and addresses and 1 video statement as newspapers reported them. Those quotations remain tied to the reports that printed them, on Speeches & Ideas.
Images of injury or death are never shown as thumbnails, previews or illustrations, here or on any child catalogue.
What every published media record carries
- What is shown or heard, who, and what is happening.
- When and where it was made, at the precision known — or “Date unknown”.
- Who made it and where it was first published, with the original address.
- Who holds the copyright and on what terms the archive may show it.
- The events, people and collections it belongs to.
- Any change made for display — monochrome, crop, compression — with the original kept unchanged.
- For film and recordings, labelled as official, checked by a researcher, or machine-made.
How the archive works
Provenance before publication, rights before reproduction, and originals never overwritten.
- Material enters the archive from its first publisher wherever possible: the court, the agency, the outlet, the person who made it. A compilation is a lead to the original, not a source in its place.
- Every record keeps where it came from: the original address, the publisher, the creator, and the dates it was made, published and obtained. A record without provenance is not published.
- Being available online is not permission. A photograph, film or recording is shown only when its rights are granted, licensed, in the public domain or not required. Otherwise the archive cites it and links to it, and says why it is not shown.
- A record is public, public as metadata only, redacted, restricted or unavailable. Restricted records — unreleased material, private information, confidential submissions — are not shown or counted on any public page.
- An original is kept exactly as received and never overwritten. Thumbnails, monochrome versions, crops, transcodes, OCR text, transcripts and translations are separate files, each recording what it was made from and how.
- Each file the archive holds is recorded with a SHA-256 hash. A matching hash shows that the stored copy has not changed since it was recorded; it says nothing about whether what the file shows is true.
- Bangla originals are kept in Bangla. Every transcript and translation says what it is — official, checked by a researcher against the original, or machine-made — and machine output is never treated as authoritative.
- The same material collected from several addresses is one record, with each address kept. Two outlets carrying the same agency report are two sources but not two independent confirmations.
- Preservation does not require publication. Addresses, phone numbers, identity documents, medical records, the whereabouts of witnesses and anything identifying a minor are not published. Images of injury or death are never shown as thumbnails or previews.
- A wrong date, name, caption, place, creator, rights status or event link is corrected with a note saying what changed and when; the earlier version is not silently rewritten.
- No archived copy has yet been made of any source, so no record carries a capture date. Photographs, videos and audio catalogue entries have stable archive references; their catalogue date is distinct from the date of the historical event or recording.
Archive last reviewed . To correct a record, supply a document or ask for material to be reviewed or withdrawn, see corrections and right of reply and the research methodology.
Continue the record
Evidence & Documents
The records of the Hadi murder case, and what each can establish.
Timeline
His life and the case in dated, sourced events.
Speeches & Ideas
What he said, quoted as it was reported.