Jamaat calls shutdown for Wednesday, too

The Jamaat-e-Islami has called a daylong general strike across the country for Wednesday to denounce the verdict against its Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Molla who got life term for his role in the War of Liberation in 1971.

Hours after the verdict at the International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Tuesday, the Islamist party’s Acting Secretary General Rafiqul Islam Khan in a statement said the verdict was ‘politically motivated’ and ‘government-dictated’.

“The people have rejected the verdict which has come through the tribunal as part of the government-designed political vendetta,” the statement read.

Earlier in the day, the three-judge tribunal unanimously pronounced the verdict holding him guilty of five charges in a packed courtroom on the High Court premises in presence of Molla.

Molla was indicted for six war crimes charges on May 28 last year including mass murder, conspiracy and instigation in 1971.

This is second verdict since the Sheikh Hasina government in 2010 initiated the process of trying those who committed crimes against humanity during the Liberation War under an amended 1973 law.bdnews24.co

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