Mohiuddin Chowdhury, a lawyer for Abbas, then said there was no bar to his release from prison because he had secured bail in all the cases. Police arrested Abbas at Shahidbagh in the capital on Oct 31 last year, four days after the violence centring the rally had broken out. "He was sent to jail on Nov 1 in one of the cases and was shown arrested in another. So, we applied for him to be shown arrested in those cases," said his lawyer Mohiuddin. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury were also freed on bail last Thursday.

Source: bd News24 February 19, 2024 20:27 UTC