BANGLADESH NEWS
The Shahbagh
demonstrators brought out a procession in the capital on Thursday to
protest the countrywide daylong Shutdown enforced by the main opposition
BNP and its ally Jamaat-e-Islami- hartal.
Several hundred people joined the anti-hartal procession that began
from Shahbagh intersection, now christened Projonmo Chattar, around
9:30am.
The hour-long procession paraded through Matsya Bhaban, Jatiya Press Club and Purana Paltan before retuning to Shahbagh.
Meanwhile, a grand rally is also scheduled to be held around 3:00pm at Shikha Chirantan in Suhrawardy Udyan today.
Commemorating the International Women’s Day on March 8, a rally will
also be held at the Projonmo Chattar under the banner of “Nari
Gonojagoron Mancha,”
The Shahbagh movement began on February 5, hours after Jamaat
assistant secretary general Abdul Quader Mollah was sentenced to life in
prison for rape, killing and genocide during country’s Liberation War
in 1971.
Rejecting the verdict, Bloggers and Online Activist Network initiated the protest that soon turned into a mass movement.
It also spread to other parts of the country and eventually abroad later.
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