Shah Ahmed Shafi, ameer of Islamist group Hefazat-e-Islam, yesterday said they had postponed the dawn-to-dusk hartal in Chittagong slated for today fearing “police action.”
“We became concerned over the security of the leaders, activists and supporters of the organisation and their property,” he said in a statement issued late Friday. The death toll was rising day by day due to the firing and attacks of the law enforcement agencies and in this situation, postponing the hartal was a different sort of protest, Shafi said.
