Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Monday called a 48-hour general strike across the country protesting what it said the government’s conspiracy of killing the party’s senior assistant secretary general Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and demanding his release.
The programme was announced by its acting amir Makbul Ahmad through a press statement signed by one M Alam of its central publicity department.
The strike will be enforced on Tuesday and Wednesday, the statement said.
Ambulance, vehicles carrying bodies, and vehicles of hospitals and fire service will remain out of the purview of the shutdown, it added.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed condemned war crimes convict Kamaruzzaman’s appeal seeking review of its decision that had upheld his death sentence in war crimes case.
This verdict cleared the way for carrying out the death warrant for his execution.
A four-member bench headed by chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha pronounced the judgement around 9:10am on a review petition filed by Kamaruzzaman.
Source: New Age
