Bangladesh Religious Leaders Demand Justice for 2018 Tablighi Jamaat Attack, Set Ultimatum for Government Action
Dhaka, Bangladesh – Community and religious leaders gathered in Dhaka on Sunday to demand justice for the brutal attack that targeted followers of Tablighi Jamaat during the religious gathering Bishwa Ijtema in 2018. The violent outbreak, which occurred in Tongi near the banks of the Turag River, resulted in several deaths and left over 5,000 people injured. At the National Press Club, Ulama-Mashayekh Bangladesh, a group of esteemed religious scholars, expressed their dismay at the …