Jamaat's hartal in Rajshahi today
Jamaat-e-Islami called an eight-hour hartal for today in Rajshahi division, demanding immediate release of all detained leaders of the party including its assistant secretary general Mujibur Rahman.
The hartal will be enforced from 6:00am to 2:00pm, announced Rofikul Islam, team member of the divisional committee of Jamaat, yesterday in a press release.
In the press release, Jamaat demanded immediate release of Mujibur Rahman and other leaders who are detained for their alleged crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Liberation War.
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested Mujibur from Zero Point area in Khulna city on Saturday for his alleged involvement with the attack on police in Rajshahi during the BNP-led opposition's countrywide hartal on January 6.
The release claimed that Rab arrested Mujibur, also president of Shramik Kolyan Federation, without any charges against him and later implicated him in a “false†case.
Earlier, Jamaat observed half-day hartal in the division in last December protesting the arrest of the party's publicity secretary Tasnim Alam.
Rajshahi Metropolitan Police Commissioner SM Moniruzzaman said police forces were already deployed at various points of the city to prevent any untoward incidents.
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