Dhaka, May 28 -- Chief Justice Dr Syed Refaat Ahmed on Wednesday termed July uprising's slogan 'we want justice' as a verdict pronounced in the public square.

He said, "We must speak of July and August 2024, the months that shook our nation's conscience awake. When lawlessness spread like wildfire, when state institutions were captured, including the judiciary and repurposed to serve a narrow few, when the cries of the oppressed echoed louder than court judgments, the people took to the streets.

In every square of Dhaka, in the heart of Ramna and the heart of Shahbagh and Shahid Minar, young voices rose with a single, firm cry--- 'We Want Justice'. It was not a slogan. It was a verdict pronounced not in courtrooms, but in the public squ...