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Scores hurt as Bangladesh Islamists battle police
11 Apr 2008 09:28:05 GMT
 Source: Reuters
DHAKA, April 11 (Reuters) - Hundreds of members of a group campaigning for Islamic rule in Bangladesh clashed with police on Friday over a plan to give women equal inheritance rights.

Police fired teargas and used batons to break up the protests after members of the Islami Constitution Movement threw rocks and stones as they emerged from Friday prayers at a mosque in the centre of the capital Dhaka, witnesses said.

A Reuters reporter said at least a 100 people were injured in the protests that took place despite a ban on such gatherings under a state of emergency imposed after an army-backed interim administration took power in January last year.

"All roads around the Baitul Mokarram mosque were filled with white robed Muslim devotees since before noon despite strong presence of police," a witness said.

On Thursday, nearly 50 people were injured as members of the Khelafat Majlis group clashed with police in the capital over the same issue.

The activists' ire was triggered by reports of a draft law in the local media that gives equal inheritance rights, including property, to men and women.

The Islamic Constitution Movement, which is one of several groups campaigning for sharia-based laws in Bangladesh, said the law was against a Koranic law of inheritance.

(Reporting by Anis Ahmed; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)


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