The party calls its leaders and activists to observe the programme peacefully
Jamaat-e-Islami will stage countrywide demonstrations demanding the release of death-row war criminal and party’s senior assistant secretary general Mohammad Kamaruzzaman.
The party made the announcement through a statement signed by Jamaat acting secretary general Dr Shafiqur Rahman on Saturday afternoon.
“The government has cooked up conspiracy to kill Kamaruzzaman by convicting him in fake and fabricated charges,” Shafiqur Rahman alleged.
He also urged the government to stop its “plan to kill Kamaruzzaman.”
He said international humanitarian organisations of different countries including the United Nations, European Union and Amnesty International have called upon the government to overturn the death sentence to the Jamaat leader.
On November 3, Appellate Division of the Supreme Court sentenced Jamaat leader Kamaruzzaman to death for crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Liberation War.
Kamaruzzaman was an al-Badr leader in 1971. He was also a top leader of the greater Mymensingh Islami Chhatra Sangha, the then student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, and was also the office secretary of East Pakistan Islami Chhatra Sangha.
On May 9 last year, the tribunal found him guilty of mass killing, murder, abduction, torture, rape, persecution, and abatement of torture in the Mymensingh area in 1971.
Source: bdnews24
