Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami declared a countrywide demonstration programme for tomorrow demanding the release from jail of 18-party leaders and the restoration of a caretaker government system.
Party acting secretary general Rafiqul Islam Khan said in a written media release on Friday: “The government is hatching a conspiracy to stay in power. But we will not let it happen.”
According to the release, Jamaat called the demonstration to protest mass arrests and torture and demand the release of its detained leaders and activists. It also wants the withdrawal of “false” cases, the cancellation of “questionable” war crime tribunals, and the restoration of the caretaker government provision in the constitution.