DHAKA (PTI): Bangladesh’s Jute Minister Brig. (Retd) A. S. S. Hannan Shah and his wife narrowly escaped unhurt after a car in which they were travelling came under attack from Muslim fundamentalists demanding death for the feminist author Taslima Nasreen police said July 2. Activists of the Morcha against anti-Islam and anti-national activities attacked the ministers car with bricks and damaged it when it was speeding past a rally organized by the Morcha in Sylhet
town about 239 km from Dhaka Police used batons and lobbed five rounds of teargas shells to during the 20-minute running battle with the rampaging fundamentalists witnesses said
At least 20 people including a police officer were injured in the Violence Sylhet town has always been a hotbed of fundamentalists and it Was from this town that a radical Islamic group Sahaba Sainiks Parishad (Council of Islamic soldiers) first announced a price of Taka 50000 (about Rs 38000) on Taslimas head in September last year. The council convenor Maulana Habib ur Rahman however denicd it later
Article extracted from this publication >> July 8, 1994
