Rights body Ain O Salish Kendra on Sunday expressed deep concern over police action to foil Saturday’s black flag demonstration of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, demanding immediate release of their party chairperson Khaleda Zia.
ASK also strongly condemned the reported arrest of some 50 leaders and activists of the political opposition while police’s action left 100 BNP activists injured, said a press release from the organisation.
The rights body also blasted the law enforcers’ approach of charging baton, spraying hot water on the agitated BNP activists who had thronged in front of the party office at Naya Paltan in Dhaka on the day. ASK observed that holding meeting, protest rally and processions were democratic rights of a political party that is secured by the constitution.
On February 8, Khaleda Zia was sentenced for five years in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. Since then, she has been kept at the erstwhile Dhaka Central Jail at Nazimuddin Road in the Old Town of Dhaka.
The black flag demonstration was announced protesting police’s denial on Thursday to permit the party’s rally at Suhrawardy Udyan or Naya Paltan in Dhaka.
The black flag demonstration was scheduled for one hour from 11:00am in front of the BNP central office.
On Saturday, BNP claimed that while foiling the demonstration, police arrested more than 150 leaders and activists, including joint secretary general Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal and assistant climate secretary Mustafizur Rahman Babul and injured 230, including organising secretary Fazlul Hoque Milon.
- Courtesy: New Age Feb 26, 2018
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