Sharif Osman Hadi Age, Death, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Sharif Osman Hadi

• After completing his formal education, Sharif Osman Hadi started teaching business subjects as a lecturer at the University of Scholars, a private college in Dhaka.

• In 2024, during the July Revolution in Bangladesh, he started living in Rampura, Dhaka. He joined the revolution and soon started working as its coordinator. He then helped organise local events and activities related to the revolution.

• In July 2024, Sharif Osman Hadi co-founded Inqilab Moncho, a youth group formed from students and citizen protests in Bangladesh. He worked as its spokesperson.

• The main motive of this group is to protect the freedom of the country by opposing all control by others and demanding a fair state.

• During this movement, this group joined other youth groups which were demanding justice for the deaths in protests and a ban on the Awami League.

• Some media reports call Inqilab Moncho a part of the ‘July Unity coalition,’ which was formed after the protests.

• Sharif Osman Hadi actively participated in the July Revolution.
  

  Sharif Osman Hadi while protesting during the Inqilab Moncho and the July Revolution

• Soon after the protests, he became an important young leader of the revolution who kept asking questions about the deaths of the protesters.

• Sharif Osman Hadi blamed some opposition groups for trying to take over the movement and blamed some youth leaders for corruption.

• After that, he, along with the Inqilab Moncho group, kept demanding a legal ban on the Awami League from politics.

• They claimed that the Awami League caused crackdowns and deaths in protests. During a gathering for martyrs in Shahbagh, he told other political parties to investigate the Awami League and ban them from elections.

• He announced that he, along with his group, would march to the Bangladesh Secretariat in ‘March for Bangladesh’ if demands were not met in 100 days.

• According to Sharif Osman Hadi, he and his group were fighting against ‘fascism.’

• He requested the July protesters to stop the ruling party from gaining back power.

• On 27 September 2024, a popular journalist, Mahmudur Rahman, who was in exile in Turkiye for five and a half years, returned to Bangladesh.

• Earlier, Rahman had faced backlash from Sheikh Hasina‘s government for his reporting. So, he flew on Qatar Airways and became popular for delivering an emotional speech on a truck.

• Sharif Osman Hadi, along with his activists, visited Hazrat Shah Jalal Airport in Dhaka to welcome Mahmudur Rahman on 27 September 2024.

• This was the first time he came into the limelight in Dhaka for organising a big public event.

• After a few months, he made headlines by turning the July-August 2024 revolution into a political plan.

• In July 2025, when the National Citizen Party organised a march to Gopalganj following the demolition of Dhanmondi 32, the march was stopped after clashes. After that, while using cursing language, he demanded to shut down the Gopalganj district in Bangladesh.

• Later, Sharif Osman Hadi faced backlash for his words. He then called his words an ‘epic of liberation’ and said sorry to anyone upset.

• On 24 May 2025, Inqilab Moncho held a press conference at the University of Dhaka, where he requested the formation of a ‘National government’ comprising the BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami, Islami Andolan Bangladesh, and other groups, all of which are opposed to the Awami League.

• Sharif Osman Hadi once organised a non-stop human chain protest near the Bangladesh National Museum in Shahbagh. His demands included arresting Lucky Akter, probing old killings, and banning the Awami League.

• Once, on national television, he claimed that politics was a form of bargaining. He talked about merger discussions between the National Citizen Party and the Gono Odhikar Parishad.

• He criticised other opposition groups, such as the National Citizens Party, for trying to ‘monopolise’ the July revolt, calling some leaders corrupt.

• In July 2025, during a media conference at Madhur Canteen in the University of Dhaka, Sharif Osman Hadi warned the BNP. He said that if BNP came into power and worked with the old rules of politics, then they would not last for more than two years.

• He often used various social media platforms and live speeches to talk about politics.

• In July 2025, he demanded the arrest of activist Lucky Akter and asked for investigations into alleged massacres.

• During one of his speeches, Sharif Osman Hadi claimed that there was a lot of misinformation spread about the missing bodies of the activists. He said that some campaigns were pre-planned against the state. He claimed that nobody could hide mass killings easily in today’s Bangladesh.
  

  Sharif Osman Hadi while delivering a speech

• After the start of the July Revolution in July 2024, as a spokesperson, he often talked about anti-India control in Bangladesh.

• He linked the democracy struggle of Bangladesh to end India’s dominance.

• Sharif Osman Hadi once claimed that the old Awami League government worked with help from New Delhi in India.

• He said that the new generation in Bangladesh needed a big break from these old power ties.

• Under his leadership, Inqilab Moncho often protested to officially ban the Awami League. They also demanded changes in the agreements between Bangladesh and India for “justice-based sovereignty” (Insaf).

• In his activism, Sharif Osman Hadi used nationalist and religious themes to demand full freedom from Indian diplomatic and security powers.

• He made headlines when he released a map of ‘Greater Bangladesh,’ which included some Indian areas such as Northeast and West Bengal. Indian officials criticised him for sharing such a map, but his supporters in Bangladesh praised him as a bold critic of regional power games.

• In November 2025, Sharif Osman Hadi announced that he would contest as an independent candidate from the Dhaka-8 area for the 2026 Bangladesh election. He then started organising local campaign meetings in neighbourhoods.
  

  Sharif Osman Hadi while campaigning for his candidacy

• In one of his campaigns named ‘van rally’ in central Dhaka, he delivered a speech and criticised the sitting MPs and promised to reveal corruption if he won.

• On 12 December 2025, around 2:25 p.m., Sharif Osman Hadi was shot in the head in Paltan, Dhaka, after leaving a mosque.

• During investigations, the police said that the attackers were on a motorcycle. Reportedly, earlier, he was receiving death threats.

• After he was shot, he was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, and then he was shifted to Evercare Hospital in Dhaka. On 15 December 2025, he was airlifted to Singapore General Hospital, where he died on 18 December 2025.
  

  Sharif Osman Hadi being transported to Singapore via air ambulance at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka

• During investigations, police named Awami League members Faisal Karim Masud and Alamgir Sheikh as suspects. After that, the Home Affairs Ministry of Bangladesh and police offered a 5 million taka (about $42,000) reward for the information leading to their arrest.

• The police confirmed that the CCTV stills showed that both attackers were wearing black clothes and glasses. One was wearing a black hoodie, and the other had a black shirt and a wristwatch.

• Later, several people were arrested in the case. After his death, the Bangladeshi government declared a day of state mourning.

• His supporters attacked the offices of news outlets Prothom Alo and Daily Star, where more than 20 staff members were trapped in the fire. Many media outlets reported that the Chhayanaut Sangskriti Bhaban and Bangabandhu Memorial Museum were damaged.
  

  The Prothom Alo newspaper office in Dhaka after being attacked following the death of Sharif Osman Hadi on 19 December 2025

• The violence also showed anti-India anger. The  National Citizens Party (NCP) of Bangladesh demanded the shutdown of the Indian High Commission in Bangladesh.

• Many protesters in Chittagong and Rajshahi hit the Indian missions. India closed its visa centres in Rajshahi and Khulna. On 22 December 2025, Inqilab Moncho warned that it would remove the interim government for not taking any action.
  

  Supporters of Sharif Osman Hadi protesting his death at Shahbag, Dhaka

• On 19 December 2025, the EU and US Embassy in Dhaka shared condolence posts for Sharif Osman Hadi’s death on social media. The High Commission of Pakistan in Bangladesh also expressed sorrow and condolences. The UN Secretary General António Guterres condemned Hadi’s assassination and sent condolences to his family.

• The UN Human Rights Chief, Volker Türk, asked for calm and proper investigations into the killing. The UN Human Rights Office showed concern and asked for a fair probe.

• His funeral prayer was organised at the South Plaza of Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. Reportedly, tens of thousands of people attended the prayer.
  

  People gathered at the funeral of Sharif Osman Hadi at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban

• Reportedly, three Bangladeshi media outlets wrote that his funeral prayers would be held at Angullia Mosque in Singapore, and then hundreds of Bangladeshis gathered outside the Mosque. However, the Bangladeshi High Commission in Singapore and the mosque posted on social media that there were no such plans due to wrong information and no clearance.

• On 20 December 2025, Sharif Osman Hadi was buried after a janaza at the South Plaza of the National Parliament. He was laid to rest at the Mausoleum of Kazi Nazrul Islam, near the Dhaka University Central Mosque.
  

  Funeral prayer of Osman Hadi at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban

• After his killing in December 2025, his legacy sparked fresh anti-India feelings. His supporters called him a ‘martyr of sovereignty,’ which led to protests and tensions between Dhaka and New Delhi.

• Apart from being a political activist, Sharif Osman Hadi was also an author. In 2024, he released a book titled ‘The Eastern Sky Turned Red Amaranth’ in Bengali.
  

  The cover of the book ‘The Eastern Sky Turned Red Amaranth’