Jamaat calls hartal for Thursday

 

Jamaat-e-Islami has called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal for Thursday, assuming that an "unjust punishment would be awarded" to its leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee.
International Crimes Tribunal-1, which is holding the trial of Sayedee for 19 charges of crimes against humanity, will deliver its judgement on Thursday after continuing the trial for 15 months.
Jamaat office staff Md Maksudur told The Daily Star that the party acting secretary general Rafiqul Islam Khan through a press release made the announcement of the hartal on Wednesday.

The party called a similar hartal on February 5, the day International Crimes Tribunal-2 sentenced Jamaat assistant secretary general Abdul Quader Mollah to life in prison for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.