Ehsanul Haque Jasim :
Jamaat-e-Islami is becoming active again on the streets centering the verdict on the appeals regarding the sentencing of the party nayebe ameer Maulana Delawar Hossain Sayedee.
The leaders and the activists of the party and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir think that the government is heading for “another judicial killing through hanging Maulana Sayedee like party’s another leader Quader Mollah”. From this view, the Jamaat-Shibir men are preparing to launch street movement if the apex court retains the death verdict against the Jamaat leader
delivered by the International Crimes Tribunal-1, sources said.
The sources have also said that Jamaat-e-Islami has instructed its leaders and workers of the grassroots level across the country to wage a strong resistance against the conspiracy of the government. Jamaat central committee member Md Selim Uddin said that the Jamaat-Shibir activists would remain active on the field if it is needed. “The government wants to kill Jamaat’s senior leaders in the name of war crimes trial. The attempt of the government against Maulana Sayedee will also be protested strongly,” he said.
The Supreme Court will deliver the verdict any day on the appeals regarding the sentencing of Delawar Hossain Sayedee. The apex court on Wednesday kept the appeals waiting for delivery verdict rejecting two petitions, one filed by Maulana Sayedee and the other filed by the prosecution. The ICT-1 on February 28 last year sentenced Maulana Sayedee to death for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.
Protesting the verdict, the Jamaat-Shibir men at that time came to streets in many places across the country that left more than 100 people dead.
