Dhaka, Nov. 13 -- A group of female students of Jahangirnagar University have held a torchlight procession in solidarity with Jahangirnagar University teacher Nahreen Islam Khan and to protest violence and harassment against women in cyberspace.

The procession, which set off from Nawab Faizunnesa Hall around 9pm on Wednesday, ended at Shaheed Minar. Later, the students held a brief rally there.

Students raised different slogans against the cyberbullying of women.

Nahreen is a professor at the Department of Geography & Environment at the university. A leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami recently filed a case against her in Sirajganj.

At the rally, students described the case as a "lie and an attempt to silence women".

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