Jamaat calls hartal for Wednesday and Thursday

New Age Online

The Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami called a two-day dawn-to-dusk countrywide general strike for Wednesday and Thursday protesting at the death penalty to its leader ATM Azharul Islam.The Jamaat in a statement announced the shutdown soon after the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Tuesday handed down death penalty to Azharul for committing genocide and mass killings in Rangpur during the country’s independence war in 1971.
The strike would be enforced from 6:00am to 5:30pm each of the two days.

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