Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia returned dwelling a free individual on Wednesday after present process greater than a month of therapy at a hospital right here.
Zia, 79, was acquitted of all fees in opposition to her following the autumn of the Awami League authorities led by her arch-rival and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on August 5.
After being underneath home arrest for the previous 5 years, that is the primary time Zia, the chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Occasion (BNP), will return dwelling as a free individual following a presidential pardon earlier this month, The Each day Star newspaper reported.
Many occasion activists and senior leaders escorted her dwelling when she left the hospital round 7 pm, Shayrul Kabir Khan was quoted as saying by the report, citing a member of the BNP media cell.
Zia served as Prime Minister of Bangladesh from March 1991 to March 1996, and once more from June 2001 to October 2006.
Zia, who was affected by numerous illnesses together with cirrhosis of the liver, arthritis, diabetes and issues associated to her kidneys, lungs, coronary heart and eyes, was admitted on July 8.
She’s going to quickly be despatched overseas for superior medical therapy, BNP Secretary Basic Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir stated on August 16.
On July 8, she was admitted to Evercare Hospital within the capital, six days after being discharged from the identical hospital for numerous illnesses.
A crew of specialist medical doctors efficiently fitted him with a pacemaker on June 23.
Khaleda’s medical doctors have been recommending sending her overseas since she was recognized with cirrhosis of the liver in November 2021, UNB information company reported.
On October 26 final yr, three American specialist medical doctors accomplished the liver process generally known as transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS process) to cease the buildup of water in Zia’s abdomen and chest, and the bleeding in her liver.
She was lodged within the outdated Dhaka Central Jail on 8 February 2018 after a particular court docket sentenced her to 5 years in jail within the Zia Belief Orphanage corruption case.
On 30 October 2018, the Excessive Court docket elevated her sentence to 10 years. She was later convicted within the Zia Charitable Belief corruption case.
Amid the Covid-19 outbreak, the federal government quickly launched Zia from jail after 776 days by means of an government order, suspending his sentence on March 25, 2020, on the situations that he would stay at his dwelling in Gulshan and never go away the nation.
On 6 August, following the regime change in Dhaka, Zia was totally launched on the orders of Bangladeshi President Mohammed Shahabuddin.
On Monday, tax authorities determined to unfreeze Zia’s financial institution accounts, 17 years after they have been frozen, signalling the speedy change within the political scene in Dhaka following the autumn of the Hasina-led authorities.
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