The Appellate Division has heard BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's appeal plea against the 10-year jail sentence she was handed in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case and will deliver its verdict on ...

"There was no merit in the case. Sadly, the High Court Division had extended Khaleda Zia's five-year jail sentence to 10 years. … The High Court verdict was given on the fascist government's ...

Dhaka 4th Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Tarique Aziz pronounced the judgment, allowing an appeal of Rahman against his conviction and sentence in the case, The Daily Star newspaper reported.

Amid the Covid-19 outbreak, the government temporarily freed Khaleda Zia from jail after 776 days through an executive order on March 25, 2020. Since then, she had received treatment on several ...

Khaleda Zia, the head of the largest opposition party ... Zia was imprisoned at Dhaka Central Jail from 2018 to 2020, when her jail term was suspended by the Hasina government on health grounds ...

Bangladesh’s Supreme Court has acquitted ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia in a 2008 corruption ... The former prime minister had suspended Zia’s jail term on health grounds in 2020, under the ...

Even after sending her to jail, Hasina did not refrain from making harsh comments. Earlier in 2022, she even remarked that Khaleda Zia should be "thrown" off the Padma Bridge. At a programme in ...

A Dhaka court acquitted newspaper editor Mahmudur Rahman in a case involving a plot to abduct Sheikh Hasina's son. The ...

DHAKA, Jan 26, 2025 (BSS) - BNP leaders at a memorial meeting today said Zia family was subjected to brutal torture during the previous Awami League government as deposed Sheikh Hasina did not even ...

The Chamber Court fixed Nov 10 for a hearing of Khaleda's "leave to appeal" against her 10-year jail sentence in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case. The appeal was settled on Wednesday.

DHAKA, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Bangladesh’s Supreme Court acquitted former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia in a 2008 corruption ... overturning jail sentences handed down by the high court in 2018.