{"id":3890,"date":"2015-02-25T10:58:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T10:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=3890"},"modified":"2015-02-25T10:58:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T10:58:54","slug":"bangladesh-court-issues-arrest-warrant-for-ex-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/bangladesh-court-issues-arrest-warrant-for-ex-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh court issues arrest warrant for ex-leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Kaleda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1063\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Kaleda.jpg\" alt=\"Kaleda\" width=\"359\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Kaleda.jpg 359w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Kaleda-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/a>A Bangladesh court has issued an arrest warrant for ex-Prime Minister Khaelda Zia in two graft cases after she failed to appear in court for the fourth time.<br \/>\nJudge Abu Ahmed Jamadder issued the decision on Wednesday in a makeshift court in the nation\u2019s capital, Dhaka, after he refused a bail plea by the defence, which sought more time, saying Zia was sick and concerned over her security because of ongoing political unrest.<br \/>\nIt was not clear immediately whether Zia will soon be arrested. The order will go to a police station where the cases were registered.<br \/>\nThe charges involved an alleged illegal fund used to buy land for a charity named after Zia\u2019s late husband, former President Ziaur Rahman.<br \/>\nZia says the charges are politically motivated, which authorities deny.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/bangladesh-court-issues-arrest-warrant-for-ex-leader\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bangladesh court has issued an arrest warrant for ex-Prime Minister Khaelda Zia in two graft cases after she failed to appear in court for the fourth time. Judge Abu Ahmed Jamadder issued the decision on Wednesday in a makeshift court in the nation\u2019s capital, Dhaka, after he refused a bail plea by the defence, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3891,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions\/3891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}