The 24-hour nationwide hartal called by Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the SC verdict that sentenced party Nayeb-e-Ameer Delawar Hossain Sayedee to ‘imprisonment until death,’ is underway peacefully on Thursday.
The hartal began at 6am and it will be end at 6am on Friday.
Vehicular movement is normal in the capital city. No unpleasant incident is yet to reported till updating of this story at 12:30pm.
Besides, our correspondents from Barisal, Gazipur, Lakshmipur and Habiganj reported that the 24-hour hartal was underway amid stay incidents. The Jamaat-Shibir men brought out processions and vandalised some vehicles. They also engaged in chases and counter chases with the law enforcers. The police held some seven-eight pickets.
Earlier on Wednesday, the party in a press release called countrywide shut-downs on Thursday and Sunday each for 24 hours demanding Sayedee’s unconditional release.
The party also announced to offer a special prayer on Friday and stage agitation programme on Saturday.
The agonising wait of millions of justice seekers and victims of 1971 war crimes ended yesterday with a shock as the Supreme Court in the appeals case of Delawar Hossain Sayedee handed down imprisonment until natural death overturning the death sentence given by the tribunal.
On 28 February 2013, the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) awarded death penalty to the top Jamaat leader for committing crimes against humanity during the Independence War in 1971.
