Bangladeshi politics has been mired for years in rivalry between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda. A Bangladesh court on Thursday handed a seven-year jail term to the son of main opposition leader Khaleda Zia in a case of money laundering, scrapping an acquittal by a lower court, lawyers said. Both women are related to former national leaders, and have alternated as prime minister for most of the past two decades. "The verdict once again endorsed that no one is above the law," Khan told reporters. Zainul Abedin, a lawyer for Rahman, who lives in exile in London, told reporters the defence had not yet decided if it would appeal against the decision.

Source: dna July 21, 2016 13:02 UTC