Secretary-General, Jamaat-i-Islami Liaqat Baloch, urged the world community to play due role against state oppression in Bangladesh. Addressing the Friday congregation at a Faisal Town mosque, he said the death sentence and life term to elderly JI leaders in Bangladesh are unlawful and the manifestation of dictatorship in the name of democracy.
The special courts or war crimes tribunal are unconstitutional under the BD constitution itself, he added. He said the only crime of JI leaders, Professor Ghulam Azam, Mutiur Rahman Nizami, Ali Hasan Mujahid, Maulana Muhammad Saeedi and Mullah Abdul Qadir is they were struggling for an independent and Islamic Bangladesh, against Hasina Wajid's wishes to convert her country into a secular state, and a slave of India.
Liaqat Baloch said that Hasina Wajid's Party had been defeated in the recent local bodies' elections and the ongoing countrywide protests, rallies showed that court decisions were equally unpopular. On the situation in Egypt, Liaqat Baloch said the Egyptian people rejected the military coup and also the interim set-up in their country. The poor people, the lower middle class and the Islam lovers were with the Ikhwan-ul-Muslimoon. On the other hand, the US, Europe, and Israel were supporting the military rulers in Egypt, to have desired results in Syria, and also due to their enmity towards Islam. This showed their doubles standards.