Dhaka, June 28 -- Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, Minority Unity Front, and Bangladesh Puja Celebration Council held a human chain and protest march in front of the Dhaka Press Club and across the country.

The protest was organised to condemn "the ongoing violence against religious and ethnic minorities". In Dhaka's Khilkhet area, the Khilkhet Sarbajanin Durga Temple was demolished with a bulldozer. This happened after communal forces made demands to a government institution. In Lalmonirhat, a low-income family's father, Paresh Chandra Shil (69), and son, Bishnu Chandra Shil (35), were beaten and handed over to the police on the false charge of "religious defamation."

From the protest, the organisations made strong de...