Jamaat E Islami

Bangladesh's apex court upheld Delwar Hossain Sayeedi's life sentence for crimes against humanity during the 1971 war while siding with Pakistani troops

Mir Quasem Ali, a key financier of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was executed for murder, confinement, torture and incitement to religious hatred during the war

Jamaat-e-Islami, which has said the charges against Nizami were baseless, called for a nationwide strike on Wednesday in protest

Nizami's execution would exacerbate tensions in Bangladesh after a string of killings of secular and liberal activists by suspected Islamist militants

Mohammad Shahidullah had been missing since leaving home on Friday morning before villagers last night found his body in a pool of blood in a mango grove in Rajshahi

The court, accused by rights groups of holding flawed proceedings, said the four were involved in the deaths of nine people

Amnesty International noted that Bangladesh sees homosexual relations as a crime, making it harder for LGBT activists to report threats against them

The unidentified student is a member of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Bangladesh's largest Islamist opposition party the Jamaat-e-Islami

The spread and cultivated fury of extremism in Bangladesh is a subject that Dhaka liberals and Awami Leaguesnot always the same speciesstalwarts prefer to downplay

Jamaat calls a nationwide 'prayer day' for Sunday and a strike on Monday in protest at Kamaruzzaman's execution