incarcerated... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
advocate Ehsan Mahbub Jubair, ameer of the Jamaat-e-Islami
...
The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka
The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an
independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
Sylhet city unit, from a hotel in the capital early yesterday.
Acting on a tip-off, Rab conducted a raid at the Hotel Garden Residence in Uttara and nabbed Jubair around 4:10am, said Lt Col Ziaul Ahsan, director of intelligence wing of Rab. He was taken to the Rab-1 headquarters in Uttara, where a press briefing was held in the afternoon.
Jubair was involved in conspiring against the government to foil the war crimes trial, and in attacking Shaheed Minars and police, torching vehicles and various other acts of vandalism, said Rab officials at the press briefing.
The 42-year-old Jamaat leader, also a former president of the Islami Chhatra Shibir
... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh...
, was an on-the-run accused in at least 16 cases.
Meanwhile on hearing the news, over 200 leaders and activists of the Jamaat Sylhet city unit, led by Sayef Ahmed, nayeb-e-ameer of the city unit, brought out a procession from Bandar Bazar marching up to Jail Road around 10:00am.
"We will enforce a dawn-to-dusk hartal
... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ...
in the city [Sylhet] on Wednesday, if our ameer is not released within 24 hours," said Sayef.
Several other processions were brought out by the Jamaat at Shibganj, Mirabazar, Madina Market, Khadimnagar in Sylhet, demanding the immediate release of Jubair.