A Bangladeshi tribunal sentenced a leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami,a very big Islamic party to life imprisonment on Tuesday for his role during the Bangladesh Liberation War against Pakistan in 1971.
Millions of people come to street to protest.
The International Crimes Tribunal pronounced the verdict on Tuesday against Quader Mollah (His real name is Abdul kader Mollah) in at the High Court in Dhaka.
Bangladesh has witnessed countrywide political unrest stirred by members of Mollah’s Jamaat-e-Islami party and the Islami Chatra Shibir, who have resorted to vandalism, arson and violent skirmishes with the police in Chittagong, Rajshahi and capital Dhaka.
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Meanwhile in Dhaka, hundreds of protesters in the city's Shahbagh Square took to the street and brought out a procession rejecting the strike called by Islamist groups on Sunday. A coalition of 12 Islamist parties enforced a general strike across Bangladesh on Sunday to protest the killing of four of its supporters when police fired during a blasphemy protest on Friday.
In a recent spate of violence, at least 24 people have been killed in less than three weeks in response to a war crimes trial verdict announced on February 5 that sentenced a Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party leader Abdul Quader Mollah to life imprisonment.
Tens of thousands of people, mostly young, occupied Dhaka's Shahbagh Square immediately and demanded death penalty for those involved in wartime crimes perpetrated more than four decades ago, while Jamaat called a series of strikes demanding that the trial process be dismissed and calling it "politically motivated."