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Justice for Hadi1993–2025

Archive · Photos

The photographic record

Photographs of Sharif Osman bin Hadi, Bangladesh’s July uprising, his funeral and the continuing demand for justice — each with who took it, where it came from and on what terms it is shown.

41 photographs · 5 collections · taken 2024–2026 · 19 photographers and institutions

Photographs reproduced
41
Recorded without an image
2
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01: Selected

Selected photographs

A few photographs from across the record, unranked, in the order they were taken. Each opens its full record.

A dense crowd of young men and women, many with Bangladeshi flags, sits and stands around a drummer in the middle of a road.
The “Bangla Blockade”Students with national flags and a drum hold a sit-in on the road during the “Bangla Blockade” against the quota system. · DhakaPhotograph: Rayhan9d / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
A bearded man with curly hair raises a finger as he speaks into a cluster of microphones at a lectern, with young men holding red placards around him.
Hadi speaks at a “Public Parliament” campaign eventSharif Osman bin Hadi speaks at a “Public Parliament” programme held as part of his election campaign, the day before he was shot. Placards read “Vote for Hadi — Vote for Change”. · In front of the Anti-Corruption Commission, Segunbagicha, DhakaPhotograph: Rayhan Ahmed Tamim / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
Aerial view of a vast crowd covering a brick plaza and the lawns beside it, with the concrete parliament building and its lake at the top.
The funeral, seen from aboveAn aerial view of the funeral of Sharif Osman bin Hadi, with crowds filling the parliament premises and Manik Mia Avenue. · Parliament premises and Manik Mia Avenue, DhakaPhotograph: Pinu Rahman / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Seen from above, a large seated crowd fills a road junction beneath an elevated rail line, with banners and a stage at one side.
Inqilab Moncho’s protest for justice, from aboveA protest by Inqilab Moncho for justice for Osman Hadi fills the Shahbag intersection, seen from the air one week after his funeral. · Shahbag, Dhaka (from the coordinates recorded with the photograph)Photograph: Wasiul Bahar / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
A man with a red umbrella stands barefoot on a flooded road in heavy rain; people shelter under a white tent behind him.
July Mass Uprising Day in the rain, 2026A man under a red umbrella stands on Manik Mia Avenue in heavy rain on July Mass Uprising Day, the second anniversary. · Manik Mia Avenue, DhakaPhotograph: Wasiul Bahar / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

02: Collections

Collections

Ways through the record. A photograph can belong to more than one collection and is still one photograph, at one address.

03: Time

Through time

By the year each photograph was taken — not the year it entered the archive, which every record states apart.

Photographs by the year they were taken
Year takenPhotographsCollections
202415July 2024 · Memorials and remembrance
202525Sharif Osman bin Hadi · The attack and the demand for justice · Funeral and mourning · Memorials and remembrance
20261Memorials and remembrance

04: Catalogue

The catalogue

Every photograph the archive reproduces, whole and at its own shape, in the order it was taken. Each opens its full record.

All 41 photographs

05: Not reproduced

Known but not reproduced

Photographs the archive has found and recorded, but whose permission to publish is not confirmed. The record is kept; the image is not shown.

  • JFH-PH-0043 · 11 July 2024

    “Quota no, merit yes” painted on a road

    The Bangla words for “quota” (crossed out) and “merit” (ticked) painted on a road during the protests against the quota system.

    Rownak Shahriar Ruhan · Published on Wikimedia Commons

    Not reproduced: the photograph was copied to Wikimedia Commons from the photographer’s Facebook page on the strength of a public post, and the permission has not been confirmed.

  • JFH-PH-0042 · 9 May 2025

    Hadi speaks at a protest, 9 May 2025

    Sharif Osman bin Hadi speaks at a protest on 9 May 2025, in a frame taken from a video published on YouTube.

    শেখ এবাদুল (YouTube channel) · Published on Wikimedia Commons

    Not reproduced: the Creative Commons licence claimed for the source video has not yet been confirmed by a licence review, and the frame is too small for documentary viewing.

Photographs of Hadi used elsewhere on the site as working material have no recorded creator, source or permission. They are not catalogued here until those are documented.

06: Rights

Rights and credits

On what terms each photograph is shown, and how its creator is credited.

Licences of the reproduced photographs
LicencePhotographs
CC BY 4.0Credit to the creator, a link to the licence, and a statement that the archive copy was resized and converted.3
CC BY-SA 4.0Credit to the creator, a link to the licence, a statement of the changes made, and the same licence for the archive copy.33
CC BY 3.0Credit to the creator, a link to the licence, and a statement that the archive copy was resized and converted.1
Public domainNo permission is needed; the archive credits the Press Information Department.4

Every reproduced photograph is credited as its licence requires: “Photograph: [creator] / [repository] · [licence]”, with a link to the licence and to the file at its repository. Photographs under a ShareAlike licence are shared on the same terms.

Public domain. The Press Information Department states that, unless otherwise stated, media on its website are owned by the Government of Bangladesh and are in the public domain; Wikimedia Commons records each file’s PID source address.

Each photograph is served as one archive copy made from the original at its repository: resized to at most 2,000 pixels on the long edge, never enlarged, and converted to WebP, with orientation applied and embedded metadata removed. Nothing is cropped, recoloured, retouched, sharpened or generated. Thumbnails in the catalogue are the same file, scaled by the browser.

The archive does not offer its copies for download. Each record links to the original at its repository, where its creator published it and where its licence is stated.

07: Method

How photographs are archived

Provenance before publication, rights before reproduction, and one faithful copy of each photograph.

Selection
Photographs are chosen to document the record — his public life, the uprising, the demand for justice, the funeral and remembrance — not to reach a number. Several photographs of one moment are kept only when each shows something the others do not.
Provenance
Every photograph names its creator and the page where it is published, with the original file’s address and the SHA-1 its repository publishes. The original stays there, unaltered; a record without provenance is not shown.
Rights
A photograph is reproduced only under a licence that allows it, a documented public-domain status, or written permission. News-agency and newspaper photographs, social-media posts and video thumbnails are not reproduced on the strength of being online; a photograph whose permission is unconfirmed is listed without its image.
People
A person is named only when a caption, the source or a project record names them, and each record says how. No one is identified from their face. Members of the public are not named.
Dates and places
The date a photograph was taken is given at the precision its record supports, with how it is known — a caption, the source, or camera metadata, which is not independent confirmation. Places are never more precise than the source gives them. The date a photograph entered the archive is kept apart.
Privacy and dignity
Photographs of wounds, of the injured in treatment, of Hadi’s body or of grieving relatives in close-up are not published, even where they are freely licensed. Children are not the subject of any photograph in the archive.
Originals and archive copies
The archive keeps one copy of each photograph, at one address, and every page that shows it reads that address from the record. A copy is never placed in several folders.
Integrity
Each original is checked against the SHA-1 its repository publishes when it is retrieved, and each archive copy is recorded with a SHA-256 hash that the site’s tests check. A matching hash shows the file has not changed since it was recorded; it does not show that what the photograph depicts is true.
Duplicates
Crops, smaller copies and composites of a photograph already in the archive are not added again; where a repository holds a panel cut from a composite image, the record says so.
Corrections
A wrong caption, date, place, name, credit or link is corrected with a note saying what changed; a creator or rights holder may ask for a photograph to be withdrawn.

Photographs last reviewed ; 2 records are kept without an image. To correct a record or ask for a photograph to be withdrawn, see corrections and right of reply.

Continue the record

  • Videos

    Speeches, interviews and demonstrations on film, as their rights are documented.

  • Documents

    Court orders, charge sheets and official records, and how each is held.

  • Sources

    Every published source the site cites.