Munawar urges Muslim states to raise voice against BD ‘oppression’

LAHORE: Amir Jamat-e-Islami (JI), Syed Munawar Hasan Wednesday called upon the Muslim states to raise voice against what he termed the exercise of state oppression by Bangladesh government on religious leaders.

In a statement issued here from JI Headquarters, the JI Amir appealed to the International Court of Justice to get the cases and punishments ‘that are based on prejudice’ abolished in Bangladesh.

Slamming the death sentence to the secretary general of Jamat-e-Islami, Ali Ahsan Mujaheed, he alleged that the BD prime minister ‘Hasina Wajed wanted to remove the Islamic leaders from her way through self-created war-crime tribunals on the behest of India’.

He dubbed the verdict of capital punishment to the JI leader by the ‘so-called’ war crime tribunals in Bangladesh as the one that shredded to pieces the law and justice and termed it as the ‘history’s darkest judgment of the court’.

Munawar Hasan said those who spoke in favor of Pakistan even after passage of 43 years still face worst kind of state oppression in Bangladesh.

“Hasina Wajed, in a bid to salvage her diminishing popularity and to save herself from a crushing defeat in the upcoming elections, was getting Professor Ghulam Azam and his associates punished through the so-called war crime tribunals,” he alleged.