Photograph · JFH-PH-0004

The “Bangla Blockade”

A dense crowd of young men and women, many with Bangladeshi flags, sits and stands around a drummer in the middle of a road. — Students with national flags and a drum hold a sit-in on the road during the “Bangla Blockade” against the quota system.11 July 2024 · DhakaPhotograph: Rayhan9d / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 (licence)

Archive reference: JFH-PH-0004
Date taken: 11 July 2024Camera metadata (EXIF) as recorded on Wikimedia Commons; not independently confirmed.
Place: Dhaka
Photographer or creator: Rayhan9d
People named: No one is named
Event: A “Bangla Blockade”, and the government’s answer (7 July 2024)
Collections: July 2024
Source: View the original at Wikimedia CommonsPublished there by Rayhan Ahmed on 11 July 2024. Original: 3888 × 2592 pixels, image/jpeg, SHA-1 df3929dac89618f4b2bf26eb95753344cea92b6e.
Licence and credit: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalPhotograph: Rayhan9d / 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, 440 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 ea33cacbba79be47b59ecaa701ab05c4d81b23d9d1d381964e1f8b5017506d3a.
Entered the archive: 8 October 2026Record last reviewed 8 October 2026.

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“The “Bangla Blockade”.” Photograph: Rayhan9d / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0, 11 July 2024. Justice for Hadi archive, JFH-PH-0004. https://www.justiceforhadi.org/archive/photos/2024-07-11-bangla-blockade-dhaka-rayhan9d-01 (record reviewed 8 October 2026).

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