Jamaat-e-Islami has called a nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal for Monday protesting the death penalty to its chief Motiur Rahman Nizami in the 10-truck arms haul case.
Jamaat acting secretary general Shafiqur Rahman made the announcement in a statement issued on Friday evening.
The statement reads: “The government is conspiring to kill Jamaat-e-Islami’s Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami in a planned way. To implement the plan it arranged the farce of a trial with false and fabricated allegations.”
It claimed that Nizami’s name was not in the FIR of the 10-truck arms haul case filed on April 1, 2004. Again, the Jamaat chief’s name was not included in the charge sheet pressed on June 11, 2004.
A total of 14, including two former ministers -- Lutfozzaman Babar and Motiur Rahman Nizami -- of the then BNP government, have been awarded capital punishment in the 10-truck arms haul case, on Thursday afternoon.
The same 14 convicts were sentenced to life term imprisonment in the arms case.
On April 1, 2004, the police seized 4,930 types of sophisticated firearms, 27,020 grenades, 840 rocket launchers, 300 rockets, 2,000 grenade launchers, 6,392 magazines and 1,140,520 bullets when they were being loaded on to 10 trucks from two engine-boats at the jetty of the CUFL.
