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Violence flares amid Bangladesh nationwide strike

Agence France-PresseJune 10, 2013 04:33
Protestors clashed with police in several towns across Bangladesh on Monday as the latest strike declared by the nation's largest Islamic party paralysed much of the country. Shops and schools were closed in the capital Dhaka and major roads were largely deserted after the Jamaat-e-Islami party called for a nationwide strike to denounce the jailing on Sunday of Islamist leaders by a war crimes tribunal. Two police officers were injured in the northern town of Ullapara after protesters threw a homemade bomb into their vehicle, police said.

Bangladesh Islamic party MP ordered jailed

Agence France-PresseJune 9, 2013 09:31
A Bangladesh war crimes court Sunday ordered the jailing of two Islamists including a member of parliament for three months for contempt of court, a decision likely to fuel tension between the secular government and religious parties. Jamaat-e-Islami party lawmaker Hamidur Rahman Azad and its acting deputy chief Rafiqul Islam Khan were sentenced in absentia by the country's controversial International Crimes Tribunal, which is trying Islamists and others for war crimes.

Shibir’s daylong hartal begins

April 12, 2013 16:18
After nationwide shutdowns for three straight days from Monday, another daylong countrywide hartal, called by Islami Chhatra Shibir, began at 6am Thursday.Shibir, the associate body of Jamaat-e-Islami, called the shutdown on Wednesday in protest against what it said torturing its central president on police remand and demanding his immediate release.On March 31, plainclothes police arrested Shibir chief Delwar Hossain from the city’s Shaymoli area and then showed him arrested in two cases.Later, the Shibir leader was taken on a 14-day remand in the two cases filed over

Shibir’s daylong hartal marked by violence; 4 dead

April 12, 2013 16:02
The daylong countrywide hartal, called by Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, ended amid violence that left four people dead on Thursday.According to reports reaching the UNB news desk, one Shibir leader was killed in Khulna and three people died in Chittagong.In Khulna, Mansoor Ali Gazi, 23, a district unit leader of Chhatra Shibir, was shot dead and nine people, including two cops, were injured in a clash between Jamaat-Shibir men and cops during hartal at Chenchuri in Dumuria upazila.

Shibir set to enforce hartal Thursday

April 11, 2013 13:33
After three consecutive days’ nationwide hartal from Monday, the country goes into the grip of another shutdown as Islami Chhatra Shibir, the associate body of Jamaat-e-Islami, is set to enforce a countrywide daylong general strike on Thursday.Shibir called the shutdown on Wednesday in protest against what it said torturing its central president on police remand and demanding his immediate release.On March 31, plainclothes police arrested Shibir chief Delwar Hossain from the city’s Shaymoli area and then showed him arrested in two cases.Later, the Shibir leader was tak

SQ Chy Trial: Chaos as defence counsel ridicules PW

April 10, 2013 13:49
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Tuesday disallowed a defence lawyer’s question on the face of it being rude. During the cross-examinations, the prosecution witness No-25, Liberation War hero Abu Taher Chowdhury, was asked by Ahsanul Huq Hena, senior defence counsel for war crimes accused BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury in the dock, whether he is mentally retarded.Taken aback by the question, PW-25 strongly opposed the defence lawyer’s question saying in an emotion-choked voice that it is an attempt to ridicule the freedom fighters.

Hindu temples, homes attacked across Bangladesh

March 13, 2013 11:31
Islamic activists have attacked dozens of Hindu temples and hundreds of homes across Bangladesh since an Islamist leader was sentenced to death for war crimes last month, a Hindu group said Wednesday. Bangladesh Puja Udjapon Parishad, an organisation which looks after Hindu temples, said 47 temples and at least 700 Hindu houses had either been torched or vandalised since the verdict against Delwar Hossain Sayedee.

Hindu temples, homes attacked across Bangladesh

March 13, 2013 07:00
Islamic activists have attacked dozens of Hindu temples and hundreds of homes across Bangladesh since an Islamist leader was sentenced to death for war crimes last month, a Hindu group said Wednesday. Bangladesh Puja Udjapon Parishad, a group which looks after Hindu temples, said 47 temples and at least 700 Hindu houses had either been torched or vandalised since the verdict against Delwar Hossain Sayedee.

UPDATE 4-Bangladesh Islamist's death sentence sparks deadly riots

February 28, 2013 04:30
* At least 30 killed, including three policemen * Sayedee condemned over independence war abuses * Supporters say charges politically motivated, call strike (Updates death tolls, adds threat of national strike) By Anis Ahmed DHAKA, Feb 28 (Reuters) - A Bangladeshi Islamist party leader was sentenced to death on Thursday over abuses carried out during the country's independence war, triggering riots that killed at least 30 people.

Two die after Bangladesh war crimes protest: police

February 14, 2013 15:01
Two people died on Thursday after suffering injuries in violent clashes between police and Islamists earlier in the week during protests over war crimes trials in Bangladesh. The demonstrators have been demanding a halt to the trials of opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party leaders for crimes including genocide and rape they are alleged to have committed during the 1971 war of independence against Pakistan. Nine people have now died of political violence including Jamaat supporters, some of whom were shot dead, since the Islamists launched the protests last month.
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