Azmeri Haque Badhon’s Facebook cover photo
A group identifying themselves as Awami League and Chhatra League supporters confronted her over her vocal support for Bangladesh’s July-Aug 2024 student-led mass uprising, according to Badhon.
At one point, they slapped me,” she said. Badhon said her three-year-old nephew was also splashed with liquids during the incident and that the group forced her to say “Joy Bangla, Joy Bangabandhu”. I took part in the July movement,” she said.
Kolkata: Bangladeshi actor Azmeri Haque Badhon was allegedly targeted, harassed and assaulted by a group of expatriate Bangladeshis in Italy late Monday night. Badhon is currently in Italy for the 83rd Venice Film Festival, representing Rubaiyat Hossain ’s The Difficult Bride, selected for the Orizzonti section. The incident took place after the festival’s official engagements, when Badhon was visiting a hotel and the surrounding area in Mestre with her cousin’s family. “Members of the Bangladesh Awami League and Chhatra League attacked me. They poured water, Coke and Sprite all over me and started hurling abuses at me in various ways — calling me a prostitute, a whore, a ‘July militant’. “It is not easy to silence me. I felt that they might kill me that day. I am definitely a July fighter. She also added that police have been helpful and contacted her. The ambassador had also been contacted, and embassy officials were being sent to accompany her to the police station to file a case.