Another Jamaat hartal tomorrow

Jamaat-e-Islami has called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal for tomorrow protesting what it said “conspiracy to execute Abdul Quader Mollah by defying jail code”.

“The government is hatching a conspiracy to kill Quader Mollah by defying constitution, Supreme Court rules and jail code,” Jamaat said in a press release this evening. Jamaat observed a nationwide daylong hartal today on the same issue.

The hartal is an addition to a 144-hour countrywide blockade that started Saturday morning. The BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance in which Jamaat is a key component is enforcing the blockade.

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday issued the death warrant for the Jamaat assistant secretary general who was awarded the capital punishment for his wartime offences.

The SC on Thursday released the full text of the verdict of the Appellate Division bench, which awarded the capital punishment to Mollah on September 17.

The SC pronounced the judgement, overruling Mollah’s life term imprisonment awarded by the International Crimes Tribunal-2.