Bid farewell to Rajib People joined the Shahbagh protests sporting black badges on Saturday to bid farewell to blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider, who had been actively involved in the protests before being killed by assailants on Friday night. Protesters, with the coffin of Rajib wrapped in the national flag in the protest venue, vowed not ... Read more
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Shahbagh protests call for ban on Jamaat
Protesters call off earlier plan after fellow’s killing Shahbagh protesters late Friday night stepped back from the decision they announced in the afternoon that they would be holding protests for seven hours every day after the killing of a blogger at Mirpur and Jamaat-e-Islami’s call for a general strike for Monday. The decision on rally ... Read more
Hand in hand in candlelight vigil
Shahbagh Protests Hand in hand in candlelight vigil People joined a candlelight vigil the protesters held in the Shahbagh crossing by lighting candles across the country on Thursday evening symbolically dispelling the darkness war criminals had cast on the nation. Protesters, after the candlelight vigil, said that they would hold a grand rally at Shahbagh ... Read more
More women join Shahbagh protests
Jahanara Imam’s portrait set up Thousands of women from all walks of life joined the Shahbagh protests, spearheaded by the youths, passing the ninth consecutive day Wednesday, expressing solidarity with the demand for death penalty for war criminals. Protesters instituted a giant portrait of Jahanara Imam, who led people’s court trying war criminals in 1992, about ... Read more
Country stands in silence for 3 minutes
People from all walks of life indoors, at work and on the streets across the country stood in a silence for three minutes as the clock struck four on Tuesday afternoon joining the Shahbagh protests demanding death penalty for all war criminals. People wherever they were observed silence for the three minutes at the call of protesters ... Read more
Tender voice merges with Shahbagh protests
Rally calls for 3-minute silence across country today Tender voice mingled with the mass protests at Shahbagh Square as schoolchildren and college students joined the rally in their thousands on Monday to express their solidarity with the demand for capital punishment for the war criminals of 1971. The seventh day of the unrelenting protest passed ... Read more
PM wants Shahbagh protests not round the clock
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Monday called upon the protesters at Shahbagh not to continue their protests round the clock blocking the entrances to two big hospitals at the intersection. Presiding over the weekly cabinet meeting, she, however, expressed her solidarity with the Shahbagh protests, demanding maximum punishment for the perpetrators of crimes
BNP asks Shahbagh protesters not to be used as ‘pawns’
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has expressed hope that the youth movement at Shahbagh Square would encompass the issues of ‘democracy’ and ‘corruption’ apart from their demand for death sentence to all war criminals. The BNP high command in a meeting with party chairperson Khaleda Zia in the chair at her Gulshan office on Monday night took stock of ... Read more
People in other places jump onto bandwagon
Shahbagh Protests People in other places jump onto bandwagon Protests at Shahbagh seeking death penalty for all who have committed crimes against humanity in 1971 passed the sixth consecutive day on Sunday with national cricketers expressing solidarity. Protests spilled over to Chittagong, Rajshahi, Barisal, Rangpur, Mymansingh, Sherpur, Kishoreganj, Sylhet, Chandpur, Brahmanbaria, Bandarban, Dinajpur, Moulvibazar, Sunamganj, ... Read more
Tigers join Shahbagh protest
The members of the Bangladesh national cricket team took their time off on Sunday to join the popular youth protest at the Shahbagh Square demanding death sentence for the war criminals of 1971. Senior cricketers Mushfiqur Rahim, Mashrafee bin Murtaza, Mohammad Ashraful and Abdur Razzak accompanied by top officials of the Bangladesh Cricket Board arrived ... Read more
Shahbagh thunder rumbles on
The popular protests spearheaded by youths from Shahbagh Square on the fifth day on Saturday saw huge torch and candlelight processions after dusk as people from all walks of life continued streaming into the heart of the city all day taking a fresh vow not to leave the square until all war criminals, including Jamaat-e-Islami ... Read more
Human sea wants war criminals hanged
Shahbagh rally calls for nat’l unity People in their thousands continued pouring in ‘Shahbagh Square’ turning the area and its surroundings into a human sea on Friday afternoon, calling for a national unity of political parties, professionals, cultural, students and youth organisations for ensuring death penalty for the war criminals of 1971. They also demanded ... Read more
Thousands pour in for Shahbagh protests
People, mainly students, in their thousands on Thursday continued sitting in at Shahbagh where they have held protests since Tuesday at the imprisonment of Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Molla on war crimes charges and demanded death penalty for Quader Molla and other war criminals. Students of different schools and colleges on Thursday joined in as ... Read more