UNB, Dhaka: Jamaat-e-Islami called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal for Thursday protesting the Supreme Court (SC) verdict that upheld the death penalty of war criminal Jamaat Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami. Makbul Ahmad, acting ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami, and Dr Shafiqur Rahman, acting secretary general of Jamaat, announced the strike on its website hours after the SC order on the appeal of Nizami against his death penalty. The SC today upheld its previous judgment on Matiur Rahman Nizami rejecting the appeal filed by him challenging his death penalty for his crimes against humanity during the war in 1971.
