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Jamaat calls shutdown protesting Nizami's death sentence

Jamaat-e-Islami has called for shutdowns in protest against the death sentence given to its chief Motiur Rahman Nizami by the war crimes tribunal.

Senior Correspondent

bdnews24.com

Published : 29 Oct 2014, 11:39 PM

Updated : 23 Apr 2022, 03:22 PM

The party, in a statement issued minutes after the verdict, announced countrywide strikes for Thursday, Sunday and Monday.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Wednesday sentenced Nizami to hang until death, nearly a year after the case was wrapped up.

It has found Nizami to be criminally responsible for the execution of intellectuals and guilty of conspiring to commit war crimes.

Nizami led the Pakistan Army’s vigilante militia outfit Al-Badr to abort Bangladesh’s birth.

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