New call comes in fear of conviction of party secretary general
Jamaat-e-Islami will extend its Wednesday’s daylong hartal to 24 hours, if party Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed is convicted of wartime offences.
The hartal announcement came Tuesday in fear of conviction of Jamaat leader Mojaheed.
Earlier in the morning, nearly an hour after International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 fixed the date for pronouncement of the verdict, the party announced a daylong shutdown for Wednesday.
Allegedly the chief of infamous Al-Badr force, the top Jamaat leader is facing seven charges which include murder, genocide and conspiracy to kill the intellectuals during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.
Jamaat acting Secretary General Rafiqul Islam Khan in the first press release said the government has been hatching conspiracy in the month of holy Ramadan to judicially kill Mojaheed in the name of trying war crimes suspects.
Later, Mohammad Ibrahim, an official of Jamaat-e-Islami publication section, told The Daily Star that the party will extend the 12-hour shutdown to 24 if Mojaheed is convicted.
Source: The Daily Star
