BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr with her family in London for the first time in nearly eight years.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday upheld the High Court verdict acquitting BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and two others in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case.
Bangladesh’s political landscape has long been defined by division and vengeance.
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BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is now cleared of all the 37 cases filed during the 2007 caretaker government and the Awami League regime as the court acquitted her in the Niko graft case yesterday.
With this, Khaleda Zia has been acquitted from all the cases filed against her during caretaker government in 2007 and AL government regime
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia went to the house of her eldest son Tarique Rahman around 9:30pm on Friday (local time) after being discharged from The London Clinic where she was undergoing treatment for 17 days.
Khaleda has been undergoing treatment at the London Clinic since January 8
The Supreme Court yesterday acquitted BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, her son, BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, and four others of corruption charges in the Zia Orphanage Trust case.
BNP this morning started a three-hour token hunger strike in the capital demanding its Chairperson Khaleda Zia's unconditional release from jail and advanced treatment abroad
The way the AL-led government has been handling Khaleda Zia's treatment issue lacks political courtesy and reeks of vengeance.
She needs liver transplant immediately and this facility is not available in Bangladesh, doctor said.
Law Minister Anisul Huq today said the government has not held any discussion with the BNP about permitting the party's Chairperson Khaleda Zia to travel abroad for medical treatment under any condition.
It is hard to discard the notion that politics played no part in this decision from the government.
The law ministry has given its opinion denying BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia permission to go abroad for treatment
After Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia needs to return to jail first for a court to accept her application for treatment abroad, some experts said the government could still let her go abroad.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was taken back to a cabin at Evercare Hospital from the coronary care unit (CCU) this morning, her personal physician said.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is under “close observation” of doctors in a cabin at Evercare Hospital for the last 26 days, her personal physician Professor AZM Zahid Hossain said today.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police Headquarters has taken an initiative to revive 25 criminal cases, filed against top BNP leaders, the proceedings of which were stayed by the High Court at different times in the past decade.
