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The acting head of Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh has called for a nationwide protest on Sunday after a leader of the group, Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, was sentenced to death for war crimes.
Fighting broke out near the capital after the decision was handed down.
Al Jazeera’s Caroline Malone reports.
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