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| Court sends Fakhrul, 7 others to jail |
| 2013-04-08 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Eight senior BNP leaders, including Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Moudud Ahmed and Mirza Abbas, were sent to jail yesterday in connection with "torching vehicles, assaulting police and preventing them from discharging their duties" during opposition agitations. The leaders appeared before Dhaka courts and sought bails in the seven cases filed by police against them with cop shoppes in the capital on December 9, 2012, and March 2 and 6, 2013. The courts rejected the bail petitions and ordered them to be sent to jail, drawing sharp a reaction from BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance, which almost instantly declared a two-day hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... from tomorrow morning on top of Hefajat-e Islam's hartal today. Outraged, opposition activists brought out procession and in cases resorted violence at many places in the country. As many as 148 BNP leaders, including Opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Farroque, were tossed in the calaboose Please don't kill me! and put behind bars on March 11 in two other cases filed in connection with vandalism of vehicles and assaulting police. They were also denied bails twice. A total of five BNP politicians are now behind bars. Of the accused in the seven cases, Moudud Ahmed MP, Mirza Abbas and Goyeshwar Chandra Roy are members of the national standing committee of BNP. Barkatullah Bulu and Shahiduddin Chowdhury Annee are party's politicians and Abdullah Al Noman and Moazzem Hossain Alal are vice-chairman of BNP and chief of its young front Juba Dal respectively. Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is BNP acting secretary general. The eight BNP leaders appeared before the courts around 2:00pm yesterday on expiry of their four weeks' ad-interim bail granted by the High Court. The lawyers of the accused yesterday morning had filed separate petitions for extending their bails. |
| Posted by:Fred |