Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Sunday called another daylong countrywide hartal for Tuesday protesting the arrest of its leader AKM Yusuf on charges of crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War in 1971.
In a statement, Jamaat acting secretary general Rafiqul Islam Khan said, “We announce a countrywide dawn-to-dusk shutdown programme for Tuesday in protest against the arrest of Jamaat nayeb-e-ameer AKM Yusuf in a false case for so-called crimes against humanity.”
Earlier in the day, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 sent Yusuf, founder of notorious Razakar outfit, to Dhaka Central Jail keeping his bail petition pending.
Yusuf, now 84, was arrested from his Dhanmondi residence at 12.45 pm, hours after the tribunal issued a warrant for his arrest on charges of war crimes.
In the statement, Rafiq said the government brought the false allegation of crimes against humanity against Yusuf only to take its political revenge.
Meanwhile, Jamaat also enforced a nationwide hartal on Sunday protesting the death sentence to its leader M Kamaruzzaman by the International Crimes Tribunal-2. The Hartal ended at 6pm amid little response.
Rafiq, however, claimed that the country’s people through spontaneously observing the hartal have proved that punishment given by the International Crimes Tribunal-2 against M Kamaruzzaman was biased.
Source: UNBConnect
