{"id":128431,"date":"2018-02-08T15:21:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T09:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=128431"},"modified":"2018-02-08T15:21:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T09:51:39","slug":"5-years-jail-former-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/5-years-jail-former-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"5 years jail for former PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Bangladesh Court has sentenced former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to five years in prison on corruption charges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The conviction means that Zia, the longtime rival to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, will be barred from running in the next national elections scheduled for December.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Judge Mohammed Akhtaruzzaman announced the verdict in a courtroom in Dhaka\u2019s Old City in Zia\u2019s presence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/135977454_14842226858891n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-128432\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/135977454_14842226858891n.jpg\" alt=\"5 years jail for former PM\" width=\"899\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/135977454_14842226858891n.jpg 899w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/135977454_14842226858891n-768x427.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 899px) 100vw, 899px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She was convicted of embezzling $248,154 in donations meant for an orphanage trust established when she was Prime Minister from 2001-2006.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The judge also sentenced Zia\u2019s son, Tarique Rahman, and four others to 10 years in prison for their involvement in the crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bangladesh Court has sentenced former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to five years in prison on corruption charges. The conviction means that Zia, the longtime rival to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, will be barred from running in the next national elections scheduled for December. Judge Mohammed Akhtaruzzaman announced the verdict in a courtroom in Dhaka\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,2],"tags":[65653,46324,65656,65655,12131,65654],"class_list":["post-128431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-bangladesh-court","tag-corruption-charges","tag-dhaka","tag-former-prime-minister-khaleda-zia","tag-prison","tag-sentence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/56fc1f130819c.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}