Staff Reporter :Jamaat-e-Islami has called countrywide hartal for Thursday, Sunday and Monday in protest against the tribunal’s verdict that awarded death penalty to its Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.Jamaat’s Acting Ameer Mokbul Ahmed and Acting Secretary General Dr Shafiqur Rahman announced the hartal immediately after the verdict pronounced on Wednesday afternoon.According to the statement, the hartal will be enforced from 6am on Thursday to 6am on Friday and from 6am on Sunday to 6am on Tuesday. The Jamaat statement said the government had filed “false” cases against top Jamaat leaders, including its ameer Nizami, aiming to create a vacuum in the party leadership. The allegations brought against Motiur Rahman Nizami are fabricated, baseless and imaginary, the statement added.Earlier, the party also enforced a nationwide hartal on February 5, the day when the International Crimes Tribunal-2 delivered jail-sentence against Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah in connection with wartime crimes.On February 28, 2013, countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal was observed demanding release of party leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee who was set to be handed down verdict in the day on charges of wartime crimes.On September 19, 2014, the party enforced a daylong countrywide hartal to protest against the Supreme Court verdict that sentenced the party’s Nayeb-e-Ameer, Delawar Hossain Sayedee, to imprisonment until death. On 21 Septemebr, 2014, 24-hour nationwide hartal called by Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the SC verdict that sentenced party Nayeb-e-Ameer Delawar Hossain Sayedee to imprisonment until death. On July 18, 2013, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami called another nationwide daylong hartal, the fourth in a row, protesting ICT-2 verdict against its Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid.On July 14, 2013, a countrywide daylong hartal (shutdown) was observed on the day of delivering judgement in war trial case of the party’s former chief Ghulam Azam.
