Jamaat-e-Islami Party supporters shout slogans during a protest rally to condemn execution of Bangladeshi Islamist leader Abdul Quader Mollah
Bomb blasts, arson attacks and clashes with police broke out in Bangladesh on Friday Dec 12,2013 following the execution of a senior opposition politician.
Five people were reported to have been killed in street battles between security forces and supporters of Abdul Quader Mollah
Abdul Quader Mollah was the first person to be sentenced to death by the International Crimes tribunal, a court set up three years ago by the government of prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who leads the Awami League. All of the defendants are accused of involvement in the killings of intellectuals, political opponents and secularists in the brutal war of independence in 1971, during which the nation broke away from Pakistan.
The tribunal has been criticised by human rights activists and legal experts as deeply flawed. Most of the defendants are opposition members, leading to charges that the process is politically motivated.
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