Govt suspends Khaleda’s sentences for six more months

Staff Correspondent

The government on Thursday suspended Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia’s sentences for six more months, law minister Anisul Huq told New Age.

‘Her sentences have been suspended for six more months from September 25 on the previous condition that she would take treatment from home and not go abroad,’ the law minister said.

Earlier on March 25, the government released the ailing BNP chief from the jail for six months by staying her sentences on the humanitarian ground considering her age.

Later on the day, she was released from the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital, where she underwent treatment.

On February 8, 2018, a special judges’ court in Dhaka jailed her for five years in the Zia Orphanage Trust Case but the High Court on Anti-Corruption Commission’s appeal doubled her sentence to 10-year.

On October 29, 2018, the same special court sentenced her to seven years imprisonment in the Zia Charitable Trust Case filed by the ruling Awami League government in 2011.