Dhaka, Dec. 20 -- As the coffin carrying Sharif Osman bin Hadi was wheeled towards the morgue of the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, the heat of protest surged repeatedly outside the main gate.

Emerging slowly from the airport, the ambulance edged through an ocean of people, inching its way towards the hospital freezer as slogans rose and fell in waves demanding justice for the slain Inqilab Moncho convenor

The march surrounding the ambulance was only a fragment of a day-long outpouring of anger and grief on Friday that had spilt onto the streets in protest.

The fury that erupted on Thursday night after news arrived from Singapore that the Inqilab Moncho convenor had died did not subside on Friday. Attacks, vandalism and...