BNP distributes leaflets to press for Khaleda Zia's release from prison
Dhaka, Mar 1 (IBNS): Khaleda Zia's party BNP on Thursday commenced countrywide leafleting campaign in a bid to press for the release of jailed ex-Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
Zia is currently in prison.
Party’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi began the campaign by distributing leaflets in front of BNP’s Nayapaltan central office this morning, The Daily Star reported.
Similar leaflets have been distributed by party workers in districts across the country.
In Dhaka, the leafleting programme is being carried out in different crucial junctions of the city.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was on Feb 8 sentenced to five years in jail as a Bangladesh court convicted her in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case, reports said.
Her son Tarique Rahman and four others got 10 years' jail term in connection with the same case.
Zia was found guilty of embezzlement of 252,000 Dollars from a trust created for an orphanage in the name of her late husband and Bangladesh's former President Ziaur Rahman.
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