Protesters supporting Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami party flee as police fire rubber bullets and teargas at their demonstration in Dhaka on Friday.<br/> <br />The Islamists had gathered to protest calls for their party to be banned.<br/> <br />Those against the party say Jamaat members are war criminals due to actions committed during the country's 1971 independence conflict.<br/> <br />Footage shows police clashing with the Islamists, as group members tried to march to a separate protest staged against them elsewhere in the city.<br/> <br />Bangladesh's parliament amended a law on Sunday allowing the state to appeal any verdict in war crimes trials it deems inadequate.<br/> <br />Bangladesh became part of Pakistan at the end of British rule in 1947.<br/> <br />But it broke away in 1971 after a separatist war.<br/> <br />Jamaat denies accusations that it opposed Bangladeshi independence and helped the Pakistani army.
