Forty-four people have been killed and over four hundred injured as rioters clash with police and security forces.
A few of the dead and injured have been police, but most have been protesters.
The riots began after a death sentence was handed down in the trial of seventy-three year old Delwar Hossain Sayedee, the vice president of the Jamaat-e-Islami party.
Sayedee and other Jamaat leaders are on trial for war crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.
Jamaat is the leading Islamic party and carries a lot of political weight as well as religious.
The government has also begun steps to ban the party from existing in the country.
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