Ganajagaran Mancha

Timeline

• 5 February - Abdul Quader Mollah is sentenced to life imprisonment. Initial gathering of protesters in Shahbag Square (also known as Shahbag Circle).
• 6–7 February - Protests intensify, crowds grow bigger, other cities and towns pick up protest. Bangladeshi diaspora and student communities abroad also begin to express solidarity with the protest.
• 8 February - Hundreds of thousands attend afternoon rallies in Shahbag and nationwide. Muhammed Zafar Iqbal and others address the crowds.
• 9–10 February - Protest continues countrywide.
• 12 February - A 3 minute silence is observed in Shahbag and all across the country. Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir attempts to disrupt with a mid-day rally which quickly turns violent as they use guns and bombs against police.
• 15 February - Protester and blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider is killed. Haider had actively participated in the protest from the beginning and had written several blogs against Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami activities.
• 16 February - Thousands of people from all professions gather at Shahbag wearing black badges to show their respect on the death of Ahmed Rajib Haider. By touching the coffin, protesters swear not to return home leaving their demands unfulfilled.
• 17 February - Various schools in Dhaka hoist the national flag and sing the national anthem to express solidarity with Shahbag protesters. The Shahbag activists announce a "grand rally" to be held on 21 February and reiterate their demand of death penalty for war criminals.
• 18 February - The Shahbag protests continues for the 14th day. Bangladesh Khilafat Andolan and Islami Oikya Jote demand the death penalty for top bloggers (Omi Rahman Pial, Ibrahim Khalil, Arif Jebtik and Asif Mohiuddin) of the ongoing Shahbag movement.
• 19 February - British foreign office minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi praises the Shahbag Square protest, describing it as peaceful and productive. Shahbag protesters vow to spread their movement to the grassroots level by making 'Gonojagoron Mancha' (mass-upsurge stage) like Shahbag Square at every corner of the country.
• 20 February - Alleged "smear campaign" against Shahbag activists, branding them as anti-Islamic and anti-social elements by appealing to the religious sentiments of the people and at the same time trying to brand Haider as an atheist to justify his murder.
• 21 February - After the movement ran for two weeks, with huge participation from masses of people, in the grand rally at Shahbag held on 21 February 2013 in the afternoon, Imran H Sarker presents six demands before the people. An intelligence agency releases a message to the news media and law enforcement agencies which states that some "anti-state elements" will try to carry out destructive activities including suicide bomb attacks on places like Shahbag, Shaheed Minar, Dhaka and Baitul Mukarram. Law enforcement agencies arrest several Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir political activists carrying explosives and planning to attack Shaheed Minar.
• 22 February - Shahbag Ganajagaran Mancha calls for nationwide protest just 1 day after calling off their demonstration at Shahbag. This happens after Jamaat political and radical Islamists went on a rampage in Dhaka city, clashing with police and attacking them with bombs and stones. Jamaat Islamists destroy the Sylhet Central Shaheed Minar setting on fire the national flag of Bangladesh and flowers.
• 6 March - The Shahbag protests has completed in one month. What started from the bloggers and online activists, has turned into a mass uprising, spread across the country to people from all walks of life, and among the expatriate Bangladeshis.