London, UK. 13th August 2018. A protest opposite Downing St by the Bangladeshi Nationalist Party UK called for the release of their party leader, Begum Khaleda Zia, jailed in February for five years for embezzlement of international funds donated to Zia Orphanage Trust. The charge was first made around ten years ago, and the BNP claim is politically motivated. Her elder son Tarique Rahman was sentenced to 10 years in jail but is still in London. Khaleda Zia was the First Lady of Bangladesh during the presidency of her husband Ziaur Rahman who founded the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in t
London, UK. 13th August 2018. A protest opposite Downing St by the Bangladeshi Nationalist Party UK called for the release of their party leader, Begum Khaleda Zia, jailed in February for five years for embezzlement of international funds donated to Zia Orphanage Trust. The charge was first made around ten years ago, and the BNP claim is politically motivated. Her elder son Tarique Rahman was sentenced to 10 years in jail but is still in London. Khaleda Zia was the First Lady of Bangladesh during the presidency of her husband Ziaur Rahman who founded the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in the late 1970s. She was Bangladesh's first female head of government from 1991-6 after the BNP won the country's first democratic election in 20 years, and served as prime minister later in 2001-6. Her election victory in 1996 was widely believed to have been rigged and in an election later in the year she the BNP lost to Sheikh Hasina Wazed, leader of the Awami League. The two women rivals are the only non-interim prime ministers since 1991, and the BNP allege that the corruption charges were fabricated to prevent Zia from standing against Hasina in the elections later this year.
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