Lawyers staged demonstrations, held meetings, wore black badges and hoisted black flags on all court premises across Bangladesh on Wednesday to protest Tuesday’s bomb attacks. Lawyers observed a day of mourning. At least nine people were killed in the suicide bomb attacks.
The Supreme Court Bar Association in Bangladesh has called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal on Thursday to protest against Tuesday's killings in bomb attacks on Gazipur and Chittagong courts. The Awami League and other opposition parties have extended their support to the first ever call by a lawyers' body for a countrywide shutdown.
Zahurul Alam has more on the story.
