Jamaat calls countrywide hartal for Thursday

 

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal for Thursday demanding immediate release of opposition leaders including war crimes suspects and restoration of the caretaker government system.Mohammad Alam, a staff of Jamaat's IT section, confirmed the party decision to The Daily Star on Wednesday quoting a press release.
According to the press release, Jamaat called the hartal for immediate release of its war crimes accused high-ups Motiur Rahman Nizami and Ghulam Azam and all opposition leaders.

The party declared the hartal two days after it and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir unleashed terror on police in the capital and elsewhere to mount pressure on the government to stop the war crimes trials.
The Jamaat-Shibir mayhem left at least 70 people, including 50 cops, injured.
They smashed around 200 vehicles across the country on Monday.