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Bangladesh
Govt open to sending Khaleda, Hasina abroad
2008-01-03
The caretaker government would consider sending detained Awami League President Sheikh Hasina and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia abroad for better treatment if it received formal proposals from their parties. Both the parties however decided not to make any proposal to the government for sending their leaders abroad.
Since they wouldn't be let back in. For health reasons.
"I received no such proposals. The legal aspects of such proposals would be examined once we receive them," Law and Information Adviser Mainul Hosein told reporters at his office yesterday. Asked about how the government would send the two former premiers abroad as they are detained and under trial, the law adviser said, "There are many options including bail and release on parole."

Hasina's personal physicians, pro-Awami League doctors, lawyers and cultural activists already demanded that the caretaker government sends Hasina abroad for better treatment.

Asked if the Awami League would send the proposal to the caretaker government, the party's acting President Zillur Rahman said they would not send any formal proposal as the government earlier said there is no rule to send detainees abroad for treatment. He, however, said, "It is the party chief's decision whether she wants to go abroad for treatment. If she wants to go then we will support it," Zillur told reporters at his Gulshan home, adding that they would talk to Hasina in this regard soon.

The BNP, however, termed the law adviser's comments "a reflection of the government's previous plan to send the two leaders on exile". "We have not heard that Khaleda Zia is seriously ill," said Rizvi Ahmed, acting office secretary of BNP. He said if such situation arises, her physicians and family members would decide whether to send her abroad.
Posted by:Steve White

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