[Bangla Daily Star] 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...
has called a daylong hartal
... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ...
for Sunday in Chittagong district protesting the authorities' refusal to allow it to hold a scheduled rally in the city on December 12-13.
The decision came in a meeting chaired by Hefajat chief Allama Shah Ahmad Shafi at Darul Ulum Mainul Islam Madrasa in the city this afternoon, said Azizul Haque Islamabadi, organising secretary of the group.
Hefajat will also stage demonstrations after Juma prayers on Friday in the district, the Hefajat leader told our Chittagong correspondent.
In the meeting, Hefajat leaders informed news hounds that Chittagong police did not give permission to use a field 'Jamaatul Falah Mosque' for holding a religious rally Thursday and Friday.
Police requested them to postpone their schedule and hold the rally after next parliamentary elections as a political instability is prevailing in the country, Islamabadi told The Daily Star.