{"id":64022,"date":"2019-06-19T11:44:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T11:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=64022"},"modified":"2019-06-19T11:44:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T11:44:21","slug":"khaleda-zia-gets-six-month-bail-in-defamation-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/khaleda-zia-gets-six-month-bail-in-defamation-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Khaleda Zia gets six-month bail in defamation cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Bangladesh court on Tuesday granted a six-month bail to former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia in two defamation cases filed against her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Justicea Muhammad Abdul Hafiz and Kashefa Hussain passed the order oafter hearing a bail petition filed by Khaleda&#8217;s lawyers. However, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party chief cannot be released from the jail as she is convicted in two other graft cases. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AB Siddique, president of Bangladesh Jananetri Parishad, a pro-Awami League organisation, filed the cases against Zia on charge of hurting the religious sentiment of the Muslims and for making derogatory comments on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He filed one case on October 21, 2014 claiming that on October 14 of the same year, Zia at a programme in Engineers Institution in Dhaka said \u201cthe ruling party\u2019s professed secularism was nothing but a sham\u201d, adding that her remarks hurt sentiments of Muslims. In another defamation case filed on January 25, 2017, Siddique claimed that Zia at a programme said Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had not wanted independence of Bangladesh, rather he had wanted to be the Pakistan PM. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bangladesh court on Tuesday granted a six-month bail to former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia in two defamation cases filed against her. Justicea Muhammad Abdul Hafiz and Kashefa Hussain passed the order oafter hearing a bail petition filed by Khaleda&#8217;s lawyers. However, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party chief cannot be released from the jail as she [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64024,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64022\/revisions\/64024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}