Sun Jan 12, 2014
The Bangladeshi government has allowed the country’s main opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia to leave her home after about two weeks.
The chief of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) was put under house arrest last month after the ruling Awami League led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina won a violence-plagued parliamentary election.
On Saturday, Khaleda, who is also the head of the BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance, left her home for a meeting with Chinese Ambassador Lee Jung at her office in Dhaka.
The government deployed security forces around the two-time prime minister’s residence on December 25.
Activists and opposition members in Bangladesh have gone into hiding amid a sweeping wave of arrests by security forces following the January 5 election that was boycotted by the BNP. The election was marred by violence and led to more than a dozen deaths.
The ruling party ended up as the winner of the vote that followed months of political unrest and protests against the government of Hasina.
Hundreds of members of the BNP have concealed themselves due to what they call harassment by authorities.
According to Human Rights Watch, "Many opposition leaders and activists have gone into hiding."
The New York-based group also criticized Bangladesh for conducting arbitrary arrests of opposition members before and after the election.
"While in some cases the government has acted appropriately to stop violence by some opposition forces, this spate of arrests is part of a pattern of weakening critics, limiting dissent and consolidating [the] ruling party power," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/01/12/345102/bangladesh-frees-opposition-leader/.
The Bangladeshi government has allowed the country’s main opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia to leave her home after about two weeks.
The chief of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) was put under house arrest last month after the ruling Awami League led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina won a violence-plagued parliamentary election.
On Saturday, Khaleda, who is also the head of the BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance, left her home for a meeting with Chinese Ambassador Lee Jung at her office in Dhaka.
The government deployed security forces around the two-time prime minister’s residence on December 25.
Activists and opposition members in Bangladesh have gone into hiding amid a sweeping wave of arrests by security forces following the January 5 election that was boycotted by the BNP. The election was marred by violence and led to more than a dozen deaths.
The ruling party ended up as the winner of the vote that followed months of political unrest and protests against the government of Hasina.
Hundreds of members of the BNP have concealed themselves due to what they call harassment by authorities.
According to Human Rights Watch, "Many opposition leaders and activists have gone into hiding."
The New York-based group also criticized Bangladesh for conducting arbitrary arrests of opposition members before and after the election.
"While in some cases the government has acted appropriately to stop violence by some opposition forces, this spate of arrests is part of a pattern of weakening critics, limiting dissent and consolidating [the] ruling party power," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/01/12/345102/bangladesh-frees-opposition-leader/.
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