Stop Judicial Killing in Bangladesh

Pakistani students shout slogans during a protest against the execution of the leader of Bangladesh’s top Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami, Motiur Rahman Nizami, in Karachi on May 11, 2016. Clashes erupted in Bangladesh after the execution of a top Islamist leader, heightening tension in a country reeling from a string of killings of secular and liberal activists. Motiur Rahman Nizami, leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was hanged at a Dhaka jail late May 10 for the massacre of intellectuals during the 1971 independence war with Pakistan.