Protesters Return as Zealots Go Violent

Journalists, teachers, students, freedom fighters and cultural activists stage demonstrations across the country yesterday demanding exemplary punishment to Jamaat-Shibir men and the activists of some like-minded radical Islamist parties, who attacked journalists, vandalised Chittagong Press Club and Shaheed Minars in Feni and Sylhet and torched the national flag in Chandpur and Bogra on Friday. Photos show 1) photojournalists hold a protest rally, keeping their cameras on a road in Bogra town, 2) journalists form a human chain in front of Rangpur Press Club, 3) journalists stage a sit-in on the premises of Munshiganj Central Shaheed Minar, 4) school students take out a procession at Bhuapur in Tangail, 5) teachers of Rajshahi University join a human chain on the campus, 6) Freedom fighters and cultural activists bring out a procession in Faridpur town demanding death penalty to war criminals, 7) students of Khagrachhari Government College demonstrate in the town demanding death sentences to war criminals, including Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah, and 8) a man at Durgabari Road in Mymensingh town puts his signature on a paper, expressing solidarity with the six-point demand announced from Projonmo Chattar at Shahbagh in the capital. Photo: STAR