Muktadesh Desk: BNP-backed lawyers have protested demanding the hanging of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted in the student-public uprising.
On Thursday (November 13), the procession took out under the banner of the Nationalist Lawyers Forum at the lower court premises in Dhaka. Later, the procession went around the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Court and the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court and ended in front of the Bar Association.
Several hundred lawyers participated in the protest procession. At that time, General Secretary of the Bar Association Syed Nazrul Islam, Member Secretary of the Nationalist Lawyers Forum Dhaka Bar Unit Nihar Hossain Faruk and other lawyer leaders were present.
It is worth noting that the verdict in the case filed against Sheikh Hasina and three other accused in the crimes against humanity committed during the July mass uprising will be delivered next Monday (November 17).
The three-member International Crimes Tribunal-1 led by Justice Md. Golam Mortuza Majumdar set this date today (Thursday). The other two members of this tribunal are Justice Md. Shafiul Alam Mahmud and Judge Md. Mohitul Haque Enam Chowdhury.