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Bangladesh opposition leader gets life over 2004 attack

Bangladeshi policemen escort Tarique Rahman, center, for a court in Dhaka in this March 2007 photo. Rahman fled Bangladesh for London a year later, where he now leads the country’s main opposition group from exile. (AFP)

Updated 10 October 2018

AFP

October 10, 2018 05:33

Bangladesh opposition leader gets life over 2004 attack

‘We thank God for the verdict,’ prosecutor Mosharraf Hossain said
Rahman has been tried in absentia after he fled the country for London in 2008

Updated 10 October 2018

AFP

October 10, 2018 05:33

DHAKA: A Bangladesh court Wednesday sentenced a top opposition leader to life in prison and sentenced 19 more people to death over a 2004 grenade attack on the current prime minister.
“We thank God for the verdict,” prosecutor Mosharraf Hossain told reporters after announcing that Tarique Rahman, the self-exiled acting head of the country’s main opposition party, was jailed for life while 19 others, including two former ministers, received the death penalty.