DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami observed countrywide 24-hour hartal, protesting the Supreme Court verdict against Delawar Hossain Sayedee to imprisonment unto clinical death for war crimes, observed from 6:00am Thursday to 6:00am Friday amid stray violence.
Banglanews24.com’s reporters from around the country reported some violent incidents that took place at the early hours of the hartal but these were gradually pacified as the day progress.
GAZIPUR: Activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Chhatra Shibir set fire at pile of cotton on rail track and blasted cocktails in front of Sadar thana gate in the district.
COMILLA: Hartal supporters set fire to a cotton-laden truck in Debidar upazila of the district hours before the nationwide hartal called by Jamaat-e-Islami.
Sylhet: Leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its students’ wings Islami Chattra Shibir brought out brisk processions in Sylhet, vandalized vehicles here on Thursday morning moments after a 24-hour hartal commenced.
Narayanganj: Activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, vandalized at least 10 vehicles in Narayanganj on Thursday morning during 24-hour hartal.
They, however, were also seen locked into clashes with police at that time after which the law enforcers detained one of them.
Satkhira: Police detained some 18 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its students’ wing Islami Chhattra Shibir from different places of the district early Thursday.
Rajshahi: The authorities of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) on Thursday declared closed the university for an indefinite period and asked the students to leave their halls within 10:00am Friday.
The decision came from the RUET academic council meeting after the clash between Chhatra Shibir, Chhatra League and Police on the campus on Thursday afternoon about an incident relating to observing hartal within the campus.
On Wednesday, Supreme Court sentenced Sayedee to imprisonment unto clinical death, on 2 charges of crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War, differing with the International Crimes Tribunal’s death penalty to him.
** Stray violence mark Jamaat hartal
BDST: 0905 HRS, SEP 19, 2014
