OMG! KHALEDA ZIA IN JAIL!

ormer PM is jailed in Bangladesh
Khaleda Zia

Khaleda Zia is also facing charges of tax evasion
The military-backed interim government in Bangladesh has detained former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and her son.

Ms Zia was refused bail in a Dhaka court and jailed as she awaits trial, her lawyer said. She faces charges of extortion and corruption.

Hours earlier, new corruption charges were made against another former Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, who is already accused of extortion and murder.

The interim government has arrested 150 politicians in a corruption crackdown.

Bangladesh has been under emergency rule since January, when the interim government cancelled elections. It has banned most political activity.

Tight security

Ms Zia and her younger son, Arafat Rahman Coco, were led to court amid tight security after being arrested at her home at 0730 (0130 GMT).

Hundreds of police surrounded the court and thousands of Zia supporters gathered outside.

Security forces had surrounded the home since midnight (1800 GMT Sunday).

Ms Zia - leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party - is facing charges of corruption and abuse of power for allegedly using her influence to determine the operators of two state container depots in 2003, during her second term as prime minister.

Mr Coco is accused of pushing his mother to approve the deal. He is still being questioned by police and will remain in custody for seven days, lawyer Rafiqul Islam Miah said.

Eleven others are also named in the case, brought by Bangladesh's Anti-Corruption Commission.

Ms Zia - who stepped down as prime minister in October 2006 - is also facing criminal charges connected with earlier tax evasion allegations.

Bitter rival

On Sunday, the anti-corruption commission filed charges against Ms Zia's bitter rival Sheikh Hasina, the head of the Awami League, accusing her of taking illegal payments from a private electricity firm totalling $435,000 (215,000).

Sheikh Hasina under arrest in July 2007
Sheikh Hasina was arrested in July

The commission said Sheikh Hasina had taken the money when she was in power between 1996 and 2000.

Sheikh Hasina denies all charges against her. She has been in custody since July.

Six other people, including former senior officials, have also been charged.

This is the first charge brought against Sheikh Hasina by a government body, so is seen to carry more weight than the others, says the BBC's Mark Dummett in Dhaka.

Sheikh Hasina is being held in a house in the parliament complex.

will she be the FIRST ONE to enter the women's jail in Bangladesh?!?!?! 😆 😆 😆

but seriously.....why only Khaldea Zia?!?! WHY NOT EVERY SINGLE POLITICANS OF BANGLADESH END UP IN JAIL FOR GOOD?!?!?! The country will have some hope then!

my brother woke up early this morning cuz he cudnt get 2 sleep nd then he was watchin news like in the early morin nd he just had 2 tel every1 khaleda zai is in jail! !!!!!!!!!! 👏 .... and woke every1 up 😡 nd then whole of my family were like waitin 4 the nxt hr news nd i was like OMG what so good abt that hai ??? i think she wil b out in afew days.....i just hope that bangladsh wil one day have Law n rules like UK or any ova country ....

we have laws n rules but we dont have the practise of it.. this polititians have made this n now they r facing the prob.. but i really want to see khaleda n hasina in a same jail.. n they r gossiping .. n u know like bosti ppl bua ra ekjon arek joner ukun bese dei just like that khaleda hasinar ukun dekhe debe coz khaleda doesnt have much hair 😆 😆 ... anyway part of joke but the fact is nothing is happening like that!! basically the thing is now mannan bhuiyan is in power n he has back up support from usa n many more countries.. he has done a lot of things which is open secret but it was told by the temo govt that he is the one who is neat n clean person so ppl should respect him (us govt made the temp govt to tell that) n so he is safe n sound! n few days ago khaleda just suspended him from bnp n he gets angry on her n he shows her the way of jail!! that is the basic fact! so i was happy at the beg that theres sth is gonna b good! but theere is nothing in govt hand the situation is basically running by powerfull hands of powerfull countries!!(

watever....i have really no concern bout any of the politicians 😆 ....im sorry....im just too young for these stuff 😛

🤢 Doods, that is what both the ladies deserve. instead of doing good to the country they were busy with their own pockets. Good riddance to bad rubbishes. 😃 Hope this caretaker govt get rids of all those evil politicians and make a clean country. People are good it is only these corrupt politicians who have created a bad image of the country. 😡

YAY!!! lol. i never really thought Khaleda Zia was a good politian... she seemed fishy to me .. The poiltians really need to act mature... they're sooo money hungry and corrupted... well, thankgoodness bangladesh hasnt gone communist...

ya i know khaleda zia n hasina both the same..i dont think any BD ppl hve lil respect for them.. only elder ppl have some..actually its for their hubbys n fathers so.. they didnt earn any respect by themselves.. so it desnt matter.. but i really want both these ladies should learn e very good lesson!!!!!11 😡 😡