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UN rights chief urges PM to let Khaleda Zia receive treatment abroad

AFP report in Dhaka Tribune, Nov 9, 2023The UN rights chief Volker Turk has urged Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina to release main opposition leader Khaleda Zia for urgent medical treatment outside the country. Bangladeshi physicians have said Zia, a two-times former premier, was at “high risk” of dying without overseas medical intervention abroad after the Hasina government rejected pleas to let her leave. Zia, 78, heads the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and…

Khaleda Zia’s son sentenced in absentia for graft

Agency report, August 3, 2023DHAKA: Bangladesh’s exiled opposition leader was sentenced in absentia to nine years jail for corruption on Wednesday, lawyers said, triggering protests from hundreds of supporters who called the trial politically motivated. Tarique Rahman, 55, acting chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and son of ex-prime minister Khaleda Zia, was handed the nine-year sentence and his wife, Zubaida Rahman, was given three years, Anti-Corruption Comm­ission lawyer Khushid Alam Khan told AFP.…