2,200 arrests after Hasina’s promise: BNP

2,200 arrests after Hasina’s promise: BNP

Dhaka, Nov, 8 (Just News): Over 2,200 leaders and activists of BNP were detained in the last three days after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s promise of “no more political arrests”, the party alleged today.

“PM Hasina promised Jatiya Oikyafront that political leaders and activists won’t be arrested anymore,” said BNP's Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.

But, over 2,200 BNP leaders and activists were held countrywide centering Oikyafront’s rally on Tuesday in the last 72 hours, Rizvi alleged in a press briefing.

Rizvi, who was speaking at the Nayapaltan central office of BNP, condemned the arrests.