UNB, Dhaka :
Daily Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman said he will take his medical treatment in the country as his visa application was rejected by the UK government.
“Since I have no option to go abroad for my treatment, so I will have to stay home and take the medical treatment locally,” he told reporters while addressing a press conference at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity on Tuesday.
The former energy advisor, who was released on
bail on November 23 last year after serving three years and seven months jail following his arrest on April 11, 2013 from his newspaper office, said he recently submitted an application seeking visa to visit UK.
But, the British High Commission rejected his application showing a cause that the UK government thinks that he might not return home if he is granted visa, he noted.
Expressing his disappointment over the UK government’s decision, Mahmudur said he had visited the UK several times in last 30 years and his last visit was in 2012 for conducting a surgery. “But I have no such intention to seek asylum to stay in the UK right now. Because, there is a court order that I will have to back home within 30 days of leaving the country,” he said.
Explaining the Supreme Court’s conditional bail, he said the court granted him bail on health ground giving a condition that he could visit only the UK to conduct another surgery in London.
Police arrested Mahmudur from his Karwan Bazar office on April 11, 2013.On August 13, 2015, a court here sentenced Mahmudur Rahman to three years’ jail in a case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission for non-submission of his wealth statement. On November 1, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld a High Court order that granted bail to Mahmudur Rahman in a case filed in connection with the plot to abduct and kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy in the United States.
Daily Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman said he will take his medical treatment in the country as his visa application was rejected by the UK government.
“Since I have no option to go abroad for my treatment, so I will have to stay home and take the medical treatment locally,” he told reporters while addressing a press conference at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity on Tuesday.
The former energy advisor, who was released on
bail on November 23 last year after serving three years and seven months jail following his arrest on April 11, 2013 from his newspaper office, said he recently submitted an application seeking visa to visit UK.
But, the British High Commission rejected his application showing a cause that the UK government thinks that he might not return home if he is granted visa, he noted.
Expressing his disappointment over the UK government’s decision, Mahmudur said he had visited the UK several times in last 30 years and his last visit was in 2012 for conducting a surgery. “But I have no such intention to seek asylum to stay in the UK right now. Because, there is a court order that I will have to back home within 30 days of leaving the country,” he said.
Explaining the Supreme Court’s conditional bail, he said the court granted him bail on health ground giving a condition that he could visit only the UK to conduct another surgery in London.
Police arrested Mahmudur from his Karwan Bazar office on April 11, 2013.On August 13, 2015, a court here sentenced Mahmudur Rahman to three years’ jail in a case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission for non-submission of his wealth statement. On November 1, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld a High Court order that granted bail to Mahmudur Rahman in a case filed in connection with the plot to abduct and kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy in the United States.
