Photograph · JFH-PH-0033

The crowd at his funeral prayer

A dense crowd of men, many in white prayer caps, stands in rows on open ground before apartment blocks; one national flag is raised. — People gather for the funeral of Sharif Osman bin Hadi at the South Plaza of the National Parliament. The Press Information Department published it as one panel of a two-part image.20 December 2025 · South Plaza, Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, DhakaPhotograph: Press Information Department, Bangladesh / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (licence)

Archive note

The Press Information Department published this photograph as the left panel of a two-part image; Wikimedia Commons holds the panel as a file of its own.

Archive reference: JFH-PH-0033
Date taken: 20 December 2025Press Information Department record of the photograph.
Place: South Plaza, Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, Dhaka
Photographer or creator: Press Information Department, Bangladesh
People named: No one is named
Event: Funeral prayer on Manik Mia Avenue (20 December 2025)
Collections: Funeral and mourning
Source: View the original at Wikimedia CommonsPublished there by Tausheef Hassan on 20 December 2025. Original: 899 × 602 pixels, image/jpeg, SHA-1 2a2fb814f2a5fb3e61d634acc19fb93df1e1d29e.
Licence and credit: Public domain — work of the Press Information Department, BangladeshPhotograph: Press Information Department, Bangladesh / Wikimedia Commons · 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.
Archive copy: WebP, 899 × 602 pixels, 141 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 bf3862b71130b79335a7f8c672e611950f1c4d36ba028a8accb224b5cbc6762c.
Entered the archive: 8 October 2026Record last reviewed 8 October 2026.

Where it belongs in the record

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JFH-PH-0034, 20 December 2025
The funeral prayer at the National Parliament
South Plaza, Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, Dhaka · Press Information Department, Bangladesh

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“The crowd at his funeral prayer.” Photograph: Press Information Department, Bangladesh / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain, 20 December 2025. Justice for Hadi archive, JFH-PH-0033. https://www.justiceforhadi.org/archive/photos/2025-12-20-janaza-south-plaza-crowd-pid-01 (record reviewed 8 October 2026).

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