Bangladesh: Former PM Khaleda Zia Apologizes First, Then Will Get Permission To Go Abroad For Treatment, Says Law Minister

Bangladesh Law Minister Anees-ul-Haq has said that former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia should confess her wrongdoings and apologize to the President if she wants to go abroad for treatment. Earlier, members of the former prime minister’s party had alleged that the government was preventing him from leaving the country for better medical care due to political reasons.

The Standing Committee of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BPN) last week demanded that the government allow the 76-year-old party president Zia to travel abroad immediately for better treatment. “Zia should confess her wrongdoings and apologize to the President to go abroad for medical treatment,” Law Minister Anees-ul-Haq said in Parliament on Wednesday, The Daily Star Bangladesh reported. He said that if anyone can find other legal provisions on this, he will give up his profession.

Condition not out of danger: Alamgir
BNP general secretary Mirza Fakhr-ul-Islam Alamgir said last week, “The head of the medical board, AFM Siddiqui, informed that Zia has recovered from COVID-19 but is suffering from post-Covid complications. He is not out of danger yet. Alamgir had said that he needed to be taken abroad for better treatment of liver and other complications. BPN MPs Haroon ur Rashid and Musharraf Hussain have alleged that the government is not allowing Zia to go abroad due to political reasons.

had accepted the conditional release
Responding to the allegations, Law Minister Anees-ul-Haq said that Zia’s family members had applied for her release and said that she would have to be taken abroad, but in her application, she did not mention any provision of the law. . We considered the appeal under section 401 (of the penal code) and his sentence was suspended on two conditions and he was released. He said that it was two conditions that she will get treatment at home and her treatment will be done in the country itself. According to the minister, Jia’s family had accepted these conditions and took her home from jail.

Has been prime minister twice
Zia, the two-time prime minister, was released from jail on March 25 last year for six months amid the coronavirus pandemic and suspended her sentence in two corruption cases. Since then the release period has been extended several times.

Jiya battling with all the diseases
Jia was admitted to the hospital on April 28, three days after being infected for the second time with the corona virus. Earlier she was found infected on 11 April. He has arthritis, diabetes and eye related problems. He was discharged from the hospital on 19 June.

Bangladesh Law Minister Anees-ul-Haq has said that former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia should confess her wrongdoings and apologize to the President if she wants to go abroad for treatment. Earlier, members of the former prime minister’s party had alleged that the government was preventing him from leaving the country for better medical care due to political reasons.

The Standing Committee of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BPN) last week demanded that the government allow the 76-year-old party president Zia to travel abroad immediately for better treatment. “Zia should confess her wrongdoings and apologize to the President to go abroad for medical treatment,” Law Minister Anees-ul-Haq said in Parliament on Wednesday, The Daily Star Bangladesh reported. He said that if anyone can find other legal provisions on this, he will give up his profession.

Condition not out of danger: Alamgir

BNP general secretary Mirza Fakhr-ul-Islam Alamgir said last week, “The head of the medical board, AFM Siddiqui, informed that Zia has recovered from COVID-19 but is suffering from post-Covid complications. He is not out of danger yet. Alamgir had said that he needed to be taken abroad for better treatment of liver and other complications. BPN MPs Haroon ur Rashid and Musharraf Hussain have alleged that the government is not allowing Zia to go abroad due to political reasons.

had accepted the conditional release

Responding to the allegations, Law Minister Anees-ul-Haq said that Zia’s family members had applied for her release and said that she would have to be taken abroad, but in her application, she did not mention any provision of the law. . We considered the appeal under section 401 (of the penal code) and his sentence was suspended on two conditions and he was released. He said that it was two conditions that she will get treatment at home and her treatment will be done in the country itself. According to the minister, Jia’s family had accepted these conditions and took her home from jail.

Has been prime minister twice

Zia, the two-time prime minister, was released from jail on March 25 last year for six months amid the coronavirus pandemic and suspended her sentence in two corruption cases. Since then the release period has been extended several times.

Jiya battling with all the diseases

Jia was admitted to the hospital on April 28, three days after being infected for the second time with the corona virus. Earlier she was found infected on 11 April. He has arthritis, diabetes and eye related problems. He was discharged from the hospital on 19 June.