Dhaka, Aug. 1 -- The six coordinators of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, the platform for the quota reform protests, have been released from the custody of the police Detective Branch and have been handed over to their families.

The protest organisers were freed around 1:30pm on Thursday, said coordinator Nahid Islam's father Badrul Islam.

He told bdnews24.com, "They each were sent home on DB cars in the afternoon. They had staged a 32-hour hunger strike while in the DB custody. They are exhausted now. That's why they are not speaking to the media at the moment."

The freed six coordinators are - Nahid Islam, Sarjis Alam, Hasnat Abdullah, Abu Baker Majumder, Asif Mahmud and Nusrat Tabassum.

After being freed from DB custody, ...