A ranar 5 ga Fabrairun 2013, zanga-zangar Shahbagh ta barke a Bangladesh, inda ake neman a hukunta Abdul Quader Mollah, wanda aka samu da laifin aikata laifukan yaki kuma jagoran Islama, wanda a baya aka yanke masa hukuncin daurin rai da rai saboda laifukan da ya aikata a lokacin yakin ‘yantar da Bangladesh a shekarar 1971.Rikicin Mollah a yakin ya hada da goyon bayan yammacin Pakistan da kuma shiga kisan gillar da aka yi wa 'yan kishin Bengali da masu ilimi.Zanga-zangar ta kuma yi kira da a haramta kungiyar Jamaat-e-Islami mai ra'ayin mazan jiya daga harkokin siyasa da kuma kauracewa cibiyoyin da ke da alaka da ita.Tausayin farko na hukuncin Mollah ya haifar da bacin rai, wanda ya haifar da gagarumin gangami daga masu rubutun ra'ayin yanar gizo da masu fafutuka ta yanar gizo, wanda ya kara shiga cikin zanga-zangar Shahbagh.A martanin da ta mayar, Jamaat-e-Islami ta shirya zanga-zangar adawa da zanga-zangar, inda suka nuna rashin amincewa da sahihancin kotun tare da neman a saki wadanda ake tuhuma.Kisan gillar da aka yi wa marubuci kuma mai fafutuka Ahmed Rajib Haider a ranar 15 ga Fabrairu da mambobin kungiyar Ansarullah Bangla Team, da ke da alaka da reshen daliban Jamaat-e-Islami suka yi, ya kara fusata jama'a.Daga baya a wannan watan, a ranar 27 ga Fabrairu, kotun yaki ta yanke hukuncin kisa ga wani babban jigo, Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, bisa samunsa da laifin cin zarafin bil'adama.