BANGLADESH NEWS
BNP has called a countrywide hartal for Thursday protesting a Dhaka court order that rejected the bail petitions of its leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 32 others and sent them to jail in an arson case.
BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan announced the hartal Wednesday evening at a press conference at the party’s central office at Naya Paltan in the capital.
Earlier in the afternoon, a Dhaka court rejected the bail appeal of 33 leaders and activists of 18-party alliance and ordered sending them to jail in an arson case filed for torching a vehicle near the Prime Minister's Office during hartal on April 29.
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