Nusrat Jahan Rafi: Burned to death for reporting sexual harassment

Nusrat Jahan Rafi was doused with kerosene and set on fire at her school in Bangladesh.

Less than two weeks earlier, she had filed a sexual harassment complaint against her headmaster.

• By Mir Sabbir
• BBC Bengali, Dhaka

Her courage in speaking out against sexual assault, her death five days after being set alight and everything that happened in-between has gripped Bangladesh and brought attention to the…

Nusrat, who was 19, was from Feni, a small town 100 miles (160km) south of Dhaka. She was studying at a madrassa, or Islamic school.

On 27 March, she said the headmaster called her into his office and…

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