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Police disperse JP rallies: 25 hurt

By Staff Correspondent
Police used tear gas shells and batons to disperse several hundred Jatiya Party supporters protesting police presence near their meeting venue in front of the National Press Club Tuesday.
At least 25 people including 13 policemen were injured in clashes between policy and JP activists during the rally which ended in a meleo immediately after it started at the changed venue.
Four of the Injured were rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where one Noor Jahan was admitted, attending doctors said.
The JP supporters also blasted cocktails and clashed with police near the south gate of Baitul Mokarram mosque.
the original venue of the rally.
Police refused to let the JP hold any meeting without prior permission.
The JP organised the rally demanding release of it* jail leader H M Erihad and it» other detained leader* and worker*.
The rally near the Pre** Chib started at around 3-45 pm but trouble began within a few minute* when a group of 25 policemen took up po*i Mons near the rostrum of the meeting beside the Press Club main gate.
A section of JP supporter* started shouting while other started stoning police at the time. Police used batons and lobbed at least 10 tear gas
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JP acting chief Mlzanur Rnhman Chowdhury. Parliamentary Party acting chief Moudud Ahmed, acting secretary general ABM Sha-hajahan. city unit chief Col (retd) M A Malek, former foreign minister Anisul Islam Mahmud, and other leaders including Tajul Islam MP. Monirul Huq Chowdhury MP. Fazlc Rabbi MP. Major General (retd) Shamsul Huq, Sirajul Hossain Khan and Razia Foycz were present on the rostrum during the Incident.
Most of the JP leaders took shelter inside the Press Club where they held an unscheduled press conference.
A number of female supporters were Injured and their sharecs torn when they tried to cross the barbed wire fence over the club boundary railings.
Mlzanur Rahman Chowdhury told newsmen at the Club conference room that "the government ordered police to break up the rally" In gross violation of democratic norms.
"We desperately tried to get permission from the authorities but were refused." Chowdhury said, adding that "the premises in front of the Press Club was free for all until this morning but we were obstructed from using microphones."
Moudud Ahmed quoting a discussion he had with the Home Minister over phone said that the minister had told him that the government banned all sorts of rallies at the major streets.
The Home Minister was quoted as saying that the meeting would also be barred from the Bangabandhu Avenue and the Press Club where the North Bengal Rice Mills Owners Association had held a rally tn the morning.
"We will rethink about our proposed rally on December 6 at the Gulistan crossing," the minister also said referring to the BNP's planned rally.
The JP leaders later distributed a printed declaration of the meeting io which they announced observance of December 6 as "Constitution preservation day and January I their party founding anniversary’.
They would soon announce additional action programme* to protect Tuesday’* Incident, the JP leader* said at the press conference.