{"id":67232,"date":"2020-03-26T14:43:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T06:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=67232"},"modified":"2020-03-26T14:52:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T06:52:37","slug":"bangladeshi-ex-pm-khaleda-zia-released-from-jail-for-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=67232","title":{"rendered":"Bangladeshi Ex-PM Khaleda Zia Released From Jail For Six Months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DHAKA, Mar 26 (NNN-BSS) &#8211; Bangladeshi ex-Prime Minister, Khaleda Zia, has been released from jail for six months, on humanitarian grounds, in light of the COVID-19 outbreak in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zia, also chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), at around 4:15 p.m. local time on Wednesday, came out of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in Dhaka, where she is being treated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bangladeshi government announced its decision to release Zia, suspending her sentence for six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Apr, 2018, Zia was shifted to the BSMMU, when she fell ill and has remained there ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bangladesh on Wednesday announced the country&#8217;s fifth death related to COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victim was one of the 39 cases reported in the county to date.&#8211; NNN-BSS &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA, Mar 26 (NNN-BSS) &#8211; Bangladeshi ex-Prime Minister, Khaleda Zia, has been released from jail for six months, on humanitarian grounds, in light of the COVID-19 outbreak in the country. Zia, also chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), at around 4:15 p.m. local time on Wednesday, came out of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":67239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67232"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}