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Saturday, February 17, 2018

UN hopes for free, fair polls in Bangladesh


United Nation secretary general’s office has expressed its hope that “a climate could be created where free and fair elections could take place,” in Bangladesh.
 
Reacting to a query about whether any action was taken from the UN chief to release BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail, his spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric yesterday (Friday)  told journalists at a daily press briefing that, “We’ve expressed our concern and we would hope that the… like in any country, a… this is our principal position.”

On February 8, Khaleda was convicted in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case by a special court in Dhaka. She was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in the case.

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