Jamaat leader kicked out of House of Commons

Abu Bakar Siddique Mollah, Jamaat-e-Islami’s spokesperson in European Union, has been kicked out of a seminar held at the British House of Commons, Bangla Tribune reports. Security police made Mollah leave in face of protests that erupted when he spoke on behalf of his party on Tuesday. The meeting was convened to discuss the current situation in Bangladesh. The UK Awami League leaders refused to attend programmes where members of organisations involved in war crimes - i.e. Jamaat-e-Islami - were present. They addressed the chair Anne Main regarding the presence of Mollah. Anne Main told attendees at the meeting that Abu Bakar was not invited to the programme. Jamaat-e-Islami opposed the independence of Bangladesh and collaborated with Pakistani Army during the Liberation War in 1971. Since the installation of International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh in 2010, several top leaders of the party have been executed for their crimes against humanity committed in 1971.