Hartal Demonstration

(Clockwise from top) Police obstruct BNP lawmakers as they try to bring out a procession on the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban premises during hartal hours yesterday. An unusually empty and quiet road before the Chittagong port as no vehicle left the place though activities inside went on in full swing. Two men, arrested on Saturday night on suspicion of being hartal activists, peer out of a prison van at the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court in the capital. BNP leaders and activists, cornered at the entrance of BNP's Naya Paltan office as police cordoned off the building, chant slogans in support of the hartal. Photo: STAR