BANGLADESH NEWS
The Shahbagh demonstrators started a procession in the capital on
Monday to protest the Jamaat-e-Islami-sponsored countrywide hartal.
Several
hundred people joined the anti-hartal procession that began from
Shahbagh intersection, now christened Projonmo Chattar, around 11:00am.
The procession will parade through Bangla Motor and Karwan Bazar before retuning to Shahbagh.
Earlier, people from all walks of life started to converge at the intersection since the morning defying hartal.
On Sunday, the demonstrators held a rally Bahadur Shah Park in Old Dhaka.
As
part of its nationwide programmes announced on February 21, there will
be a grand rally at Jatrabari in the capital at 3:00pm on Tuesday and at
Suhrawardy Udyan at the same time on March 7.
Commemorating
the International Women's Day on March 8, there will be a rally 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.
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