Jamaat clash with police |Dhaka

Political Conflict ©Monirul Alam

Dhanka April 2011. During the clash a group of Jamaat-e-Islami activists through brickbats from the Baitul Mukarram mosque to the police and police through water cannon.   Activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami locked into a clash with police Tuesday afternoon in the city’s Paltan area after they were barred from holding a rally at Muktangon. Around 1,000 of activists Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir clashed with police. At least 25 people, including 10 police, were injured in the half-an-hour clash witness said.

International Crimes Tribunal / Bangladesh

Dhaka, February 2011.Delwar Hossain Sayedee sites in the prison van, a top Jamaat-e-Islami leader, was taken to the tribunal at old High Court building Dhaka. The International Crimes Tribunal has ordered the authorities to produce major war crimes suspect Delwar Hossain Sayedee before it again on Mar 15. The tribunal also arrested four other top Jamaat leaders — party chief Matiur Rahman Nizami, secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla – on charges of war crimes during the Liberation War in 1971. Photo: Monirul Alam