MNA National Desk: Different political parties, including ruling Awami League, and other socio-cultural organisations on Friday observed the 16th anniversary of the grisly grenade attack on an Awami League (AL) anti-terrorism rally in the capital on August 21, 2004 in a befitting manner. The AL organized a virtual discussion at its central office at Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhaka this morning marking the 16th anniversary of the gruesome grenade attack. Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina presided over the discussion through a videoconference from her official Ganabhaban residence. AL General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader ...
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21 August grenade attack verdict Wednesday
MNA National Desk: The much-awaited verdict in two cases filed over the grisly grenade attack on an Awami League rally in city’s Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004 will be delivered on Wednesday. The attack was launched on a political rally with the aim of killing the then opposition leader, now Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, claimed 24 lives and injured 300 others. On September 18, Dhaka’s Speedy Trial Tribunal(STT)-1 judge Shahed Nuruddin set the date of delivering the judgement in two cases where 49 people, including BNP’s Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman and the then State Minister for Home Affairs ...
Read More »Verdict on 21 Aug grenade attack Oct 10
MNA National Desk: A speedy trial tribunal in Dhaka on Tuesday fixed 10 October to deliver its verdict in two cases filed over the grenade attack on an Awami League rally in the capital on 21 August 2004. Tribunal Judge Shahed Nuruddin fixed the date on completion of the closing arguments on Tuesday. The judge also cancelled the bail of eight people accused who are now on bail and asked the authorities concerned to sent to jail. The Aug 21 grenade attack case accuses 52 people, including BNP leader Tarique Rahman and the then State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfozzaman ...
Read More »13th anniv of Aug 21 grenade attack
MNA National Desk: The 13th anniversary of the 21 August grenade attack is being observed on Monday with a renewed call for holding trials of perpetrators of the carnage. The attack was carried out at an anti-terrorism rally of Awami League (AL) at Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital on 21 August in 2004 aiming to bankrupt the party leadership. About 24 people including the then Mahila AL president and wife of late Bangladesh president Zillur Rahman were killed and over 500 others injured in the attack and many of them became crippled for life. Those other killed in the barbaric ...
Read More »Presidential clemency of Mufti Hannan rejected
MNA National Desk: President Abdul Hamid has rejected a mercy plea applied by Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan, who was condemned to death in a case filed over the grenade attack on ex-British envoy Anwar Choudhury in 2004. “The honourable president rejected Mufti Hannan’s pleas for presidential clemency. We will take action according to the jail code,” the home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said. Death-row convict, Huji chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and his associates—Delwar Alias Ripon and Sharif Shahedul Alam alias Bipul applied for seeking clemency to President Abdul Hamid. But the president has rejected all three mercy petitions. ...
Read More »Nation to observe the anniversary of Grenade Attack
MNA Editorial Desk: With due respect and firm promise, the nation is set to observe tomorrow the 12th anniversary of the deadly Grenade Attack on an Awami League public rally on August 21 in 2004. The attack was clearly targeted to kill the then opposition leader and now Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and other party leaders. The attack was carried out at 5.22 PM after Sheikh Hasina then leader of opposition finished addressing a crowd of 20,000 people from the back of a truck. For observing the 12th grenade attack anniversary, the ruling AL, its associate bodies, its left-leaning allies ...
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