Photograph · JFH-PH-0001

Students march beneath the metro line

A huge crowd with placards and flags fills a road under the pillars of an elevated railway; a line of police in blue stands across the front. — A march fills a road beneath the elevated metro line, with a line of police across the road in front. The photographer’s description places the series in the student protests against the quota system that became the “Bangla Blockade”.6 July 2024 · DhakaPhotograph: Rayhan Ahmed / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 (licence)

Archive reference: JFH-PH-0001
Date taken: 6 July 2024Camera metadata (EXIF) as recorded on Wikimedia Commons; not independently confirmed.
Place: Dhaka
Photographer or creator: Rayhan Ahmed
People named: No one is named
Collections: July 2024
Source: View the original at Wikimedia CommonsPublished there by Rayhan Ahmed on 11 July 2024. Original: 4104 × 2736 pixels, image/jpeg, SHA-1 3aa92de70de2b30d5a813637d5d641fe39261174.
Licence and credit: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalPhotograph: Rayhan Ahmed / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0. Credit to the creator, a link to the licence, a statement of the changes made, and the same licence for the archive copy. The archive copy is shared under the same licence.
Archive copy: WebP, 2000 × 1333 pixels, 413 KBResized to at most 2,000 pixels on the long edge (never enlarged) and converted to WebP at quality 80; orientation applied and embedded metadata removed. No crop, no colour change, no retouching. SHA-256 6f11adfd79f6a534136f8fe0ef74721073581fcdf7a5b179aabcefad307b32ac.
Entered the archive: 8 October 2026Record last reviewed 8 October 2026.

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“Students march beneath the metro line.” Photograph: Rayhan Ahmed / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0, 6 July 2024. Justice for Hadi archive, JFH-PH-0001. https://www.justiceforhadi.org/archive/photos/2024-07-06-quota-protest-dhaka-rayhan-ahmed-01 (record reviewed 8 October 2026).

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