Bangladesh: Incidents and Statements involving
Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) : 2019

Law Minister Anisul Huq on January 9 said the government would take an initiative to amend the relevant law again to try and punish Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) as an organisation for committing war crimes during the Liberation War, reports Daily Star. In its previous term, government had taken a step to amend the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act-1973 for holding the trial and punishing JeI as an organisation, but the process was not completed. Read less...

A group of former leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) and Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS)led by Mojibur Rahman Monju launched a new political initiative named Jana Aakangkhar Bangladesh on April 27, reports Daily Star.The other key organisers, including advocate Tajul Islam, a defence counsel for JeI leaders facing war crimes trials and Chittagong University professors Abdul Ohaed Minar and Kamal Uddin.It is being headed by former ICS ‘president’ Monju, who according to several Jamaat leaders was known to be a hardliner. Read less...

Meanwhile, the JeI on April 27 welcomed the new political platform formed by its breakaway activists although it allegedly barred party activists from joining the platform, reports Daily Star. In a statement, JeI‘ameer’ Maqbul Ahmad also termed the new platform, “Jana Aakangkhar Bangladesh” formed by former leaders of the Jamaat and its student body ICS, “an offshoot of the Islamic movement”. Read less...

Monirul Islam, chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a briefing to a group of journalists at his office in Dhaka city on September 2 said Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) cadres are carrying out attack against cops, reports Dhaka Tribune. Monirul said “The activists of Jamaat-e-Islami, and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir are carrying out targeted attacks on police under the name of “New-JMB”. The investigation has unearthed the mysteries of all the terror attacks, except four or five of those, and charge sheets have been filed in most of the cases. Some cases have been resolved in court, and some are under trial. Because of it, they (Jamaat-Shibir activists who joined New-JMB) do have anger on police." Read less...

On September 10, 36 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islamic Chatra Shibir (ICS) which included Golam Mostafa Ranju, acting ameer of Gopalpur Upazila unit was arrested from Nolin Bazar area in Gopalpur Upazila of Tangail in Dhaka Division, reports The Daily Star. According SP Sanjit Kumar Roy, the arrestees were planning to carry out seditious activities. Read less...

Police on October 13 arrested 14 cadres of Islami Chhatri Sangstha, the female student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) from a building in Mansurabad residential area of Pabna District in Rajshahi Division while they were holding a secret meeting, reports Dhaka Tribune. Police said the building was owned by the Principal of Dhulauri Kamil Madrasa, Maulana Anowar Hossain. The ground floor of the house was used as a hideout by the cadres of Islami Chhatri Sangstha, who organized women and trained them there, planning sabotage acts. Police have also recovered numerous jihadi books and pamphlets from the spot. Read less...

Police on October 13 arrested six cadres of Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), while they were holding a secret meeting at Namajgar Madrasapara around in Naogaon District of Rajshahi Division, reports Dhaka Tribune. The six arrestees are Abdul Mannan (20), Rabiul Mahbub (19), Abdus Sabur (19), Mohiuddin (19), Alamgir Hossain Mithu (35), and Mehedi Hasan (19). Six crude bombs, 15 sound bombs, and jihadi books were recovered from their possession. Read less...