GHULAM AZAM VERDICT MONDAY
Youths back to Shahbagh
The youths of Gonojagoron Mancha started to gather at Shahbagh on Sunday evening, as International Crimes Tribunal-1 set Monday to verdict against former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam for wartime offences.
The youth who demand maximum punishment for all war criminals plans to stay at Shahbagh till midnight, Maruf Rasul, one of the organisers of Gonojagoron Mancha, told The Daily Star.
On the day of verdict, youths will hold an assembly from 11:00am till the verdict and also bring out an anti-hartal procession from Shahbagh as Jamaat called a daylong shutdown on Monday to protest the verdict, he added.
Early in May, police dismantled the mancha. The Gonojagoron Mancha, which was formed immediately after an international crimes tribunal had handed down life imprisonment to Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah on February 5.
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