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Hefazat demands release of Mufti Harun
[Dhaka Tribune] The central leaders of radical Islamist platform Hefajat-e-Islam...a madrassa-based false nose and mustache of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, formed in 2010 to protest against secular education. In 2011 demonstrated violentyly against women's rights and in 2013 held large rallies demanding capital punishment of Shahbag Square protesters and banning women working outside the home... yesterday demanded the immediate release of Harun Bin Izhar, son of Senior Nayeb-e-Ameer Mufti Izharul Islam Chowdhury. In a statement, the Hefazat leaders also warned of tougher movement if Mufti Harun was not freed. Mufti Harun is in jail in a grenade blast case at his father's Lalkhan Bazar Madrasa in Chittagong which is believed to be a den of banned Islamist group HuJI Founded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on the west. Leaders of the platform, comprising Islamist parties mainly of the BNP-led alliance, alleged that the government had locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! Mufti Harun in a "fake, preplanned and staged" incident and that he was serving jail term "without committing any offence." His rearrest from jail gate recently by detectives is a clear violation of human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... , Hefazat claims. A Chittagong court on June 25 last year indicted Mufti Izhar, Mufti Harun and seven others in a case filed over recovery of picric acid after the grenade blasts on October 7, 2013. Several locally-made grenades were set off at Jamaatul Ulum Al Islamia Madrasa, a Qawmi madrasa headed by Mufti Izhar, leaving five students injured critically. Later three of them gave up the ghost. Police filed three cases in connection with the blast, killing and recovery of picric acid. Posted by: Fred 2015-01-27 |
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