Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Friday called a nationwide daylong hartal for Monday protesting the capital punishment against its ameer Moulana Matiur Rahman Nizami in the Chittagong 10-truck arms smuggling case.
In a statement, Jamaat acting secretary general Dr Shafiqur Rahman announced the shutdown programme.
“The government in a planned way is conspiring to kill Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami ameer and ex-minister Moulana Matiur Rahman Nizami. In a bid to implement its plan, it arranged a farce in the name of trial charging him with false and fabricated allegation,” he said.
Shafiq also alleged that the government to take its political revenge on Nizamai had unlawfully implicated him in the 10-truck arms haul case in June 2011 though his name had not been there in either the charge sheet or the FIR. “The government’s main motto is to kill Moulana Nizami by any means.”
Meanwhile, a Chittagong court on Thursday sentenced to death 14 people, including war crimes accused Matiur Rahman Nizami and former BNP state minister for Home Affairs Lutfozzaman Babar, in the sensational 10-truck arms smuggling case, after 10 years of the incident.
Reacting to the verdict, Jamaat-e-Islami also on Thursday termed the verdict politically motivated.
Sahfiq urged the country’s people to observe their shutdown programme spontaneously in a peaceful manner.
Source: UNB Connect
