An assistant professor at Islamic University in Kushtia, Bangladesh, has been barred from teaching classes in response to pro-Islamist students’ protests that he is gay. Protesting students burned an effigy of Asst. Prof. Hafizul Islam at the main gate of the university and demanded his resignation. The LGBTQ rights advocacy group JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France (JMBF) called the university’s action “a blatant violation of fundamental human rights and academic freedom”.