PROTEST OVER MOJAHEED VERDICT Jamaat calls hartal for Thursday

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Jamaat-e-Islami has called a daylong countrywide hartal (shutdown) for Thursday protesting the death penalty awarded to its secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed for war crimes.

The hartal call came on Wednesday through a press release signed by its acting secretary general Rafiqul Islam Khan after a tribunal in Dhaka awarded capital punishment to Mojaheed.

“The government is hatching conspiracy to kill Mojaheed by implicating him in false cases and awarding him death penalty,” the press release read.

“Jamaat will enforce hartal on Thursday protesting the conspiracy,” it added.

Source: The Daily Star