Jamaat-e-Islami’s student front Shibir calls shutdown for Sunday

The Jamaat-e-Islami’s student front has called dawn-to-dusk shutdown across Bangladesh for Sunday in protest against “killing, disappearance, torture and large-scale arrest of its leaders and activists”.

Islami Chhatra Shibir President Abdul Jabbar and Secretary General Atikur Rahman in a statement issued on Friday also announced demonstrations on Saturday demanding an end to 'state terror'.

The statement said the government took the “cruel and inhumane' path after 'failing to politically tackle the people-students' movement of freedom”.

"Since the protests started, our leaders and activists are being killed on being picked up from their houses by the law-enforcing agencies," it said.

It said the law enforcers were “staging dramas on gunfights.. to kill the leaders and activists of the organisation”.

The Jamaat is the closest ally of the BNP who have been enforcing a violent and crippling blockade throughout the country since Jan 5.

Meanwhile, Chittagong unit of the organisation called a 48-hour shutdown in the division from Sunday.