Staff Reporter :
The BNP has demanded immediate and unconditional release of its Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. The party leaders have also claimed that the leader is now seriously ill.
Speaking at a press conference in the party’s Nayapaltan central office in the city on Tuesday, the BNP’s current spokesman Dr Asaduzzaman Ripon urged the government to demonstrate a human behaviour by immediately releasing Mirza Fakhrul from jail to save his life.
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was again sent to the jail within three and a
half months after his release on bail. A Dhaka court sent him to the jail after he surrendered to it on Tuesday in three arson cases, complying with a Supreme Court order. The BNP leader also sought bail in the cases filed with the Paltan Police Station, defence counsel Sanaullah Mia said.
Dr. Ripon said, Mirza Fakhrul has been suffering from various kinds of serious diseases, including diabetes and heart complications. He alleged, the government is endangering the BNP leader’s life by sending him to the jail. He warned that the government would have to bear the responsible for it in imprisonment.
“Mirza Fakhrul had became unconscious several times and lost 16 kilograms of weight in his six months’ jail life since January 6. He was supposed to go to Singapore for follow-up treatment on November 24. But he has been rather sent to jail,” said Dr Ripon.
On July 13, the SC granted a six-week bail to Mirza Fakhrul on medical grounds, clearing the way for his release from the jail. On July 14, he was released from the prison cell of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) after six months of his arrest. After release from the jail, the BNP acting secretary general went abroad for medical treatment in Singapore and the US and stayed there for nearly two months. He again went to Singapore on October 17 for three days. Fakhrul, who stands accused in 89 cases, got bail from the HC and lower courts in similar other cases.
The BNP has demanded immediate and unconditional release of its Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. The party leaders have also claimed that the leader is now seriously ill.
Speaking at a press conference in the party’s Nayapaltan central office in the city on Tuesday, the BNP’s current spokesman Dr Asaduzzaman Ripon urged the government to demonstrate a human behaviour by immediately releasing Mirza Fakhrul from jail to save his life.
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was again sent to the jail within three and a
half months after his release on bail. A Dhaka court sent him to the jail after he surrendered to it on Tuesday in three arson cases, complying with a Supreme Court order. The BNP leader also sought bail in the cases filed with the Paltan Police Station, defence counsel Sanaullah Mia said.
Dr. Ripon said, Mirza Fakhrul has been suffering from various kinds of serious diseases, including diabetes and heart complications. He alleged, the government is endangering the BNP leader’s life by sending him to the jail. He warned that the government would have to bear the responsible for it in imprisonment.
“Mirza Fakhrul had became unconscious several times and lost 16 kilograms of weight in his six months’ jail life since January 6. He was supposed to go to Singapore for follow-up treatment on November 24. But he has been rather sent to jail,” said Dr Ripon.
On July 13, the SC granted a six-week bail to Mirza Fakhrul on medical grounds, clearing the way for his release from the jail. On July 14, he was released from the prison cell of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) after six months of his arrest. After release from the jail, the BNP acting secretary general went abroad for medical treatment in Singapore and the US and stayed there for nearly two months. He again went to Singapore on October 17 for three days. Fakhrul, who stands accused in 89 cases, got bail from the HC and lower courts in similar other cases.
