The ongoing weeklong Shahbagh mass demonstration demanding capital punishment for all war criminals, including Abdul Quader Mollah, found coverage in various international media with due importance.
The nation saw the biggest ever public gathering in recent memory on Friday as tens of thousands thronged the capital's Shahbagh intersection, now lovingly fashioned as Shahbagh square and Projonmo Chottor.
The movement erupted hours after a war crimes tribunal on February 5 sentenced Jamaat-e-Islami leader Quader Mollah to life term in prison for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.
The BBC World, on Friday's online version, carried a news headlined “Huge Bangladesh rally seeks death penalty for war crimes”.
Terming Friday's rally as the “biggest in years”, it said the protests had grown since Mollah was given life for crimes including torture, murder and rape.
It read: Thousands have been holding vigils in Dhaka throughout the week calling for a ban on the Jamaat-e-Islami and the death penalty for party leaders on trial, on the grounds that they were involved in mass killings.
Comparing the demonstration to that of Cairo's Tahrir Square, Anada Bazar Patrika in yesterday's issue said it created a new history and that people of all walks soon turned the initial gathering of around 300 valiant youths into a human sea.
CNN on Thursday noted it a widespread gathering of people from all classes, gender, religion and profession and a mass upsurge for death penalty of war criminals. It described Friday's grand rally as non-political civilians' rise to revolt.
Reuters reported that a 100,000-strong crowd rallied on Friday to vent their anger at the country's feuding politicians after the Islamist leader convicted of war crimes was spared execution.
Al Jazeera too reported the demonstration while Asian News Network carried a news report of The Daily Star in its paper. The Shahbagh protest also found space as an entry into Wikipedia.