Three student protest leaders who helped co-ordinate the recent rallies in Bangladesh have been forcibly removed from hospital by police officers, the BBC understands.
Nahid Islam, Asif Mahmud and Abu Baker Majumder were taken from Gonoshasthaya Hospital in the capital, Dhaka, hospital staff said on Friday.
Staff members said the officers, who were dressed in plainclothes, had forced their discharge despite the misgivings of medics at the hospital.
The three men were being treated for injuries that they said were caused by torture and beatings they received in earlier police custody.
