Overview
- Speaking at Khaleda Zia’s funeral gathering in Dhaka, BNP Standing Committee member Nazrul Islam Khan said Sheikh Hasina “will never be free of responsibility” for the former prime minister’s death.
- He tied her decline to her February 8, 2018 incarceration, asserting she emerged from prison seriously ill after years under house arrest.
- Citing unnamed doctors “at home and abroad,” Khan alleged authorities denied her overseas treatment and worsened her condition, a claim not independently corroborated.
- Khaleda Zia died on December 30 at age 80 after a prolonged illness, and funeral prayers at Manik Mia Avenue drew large crowds along with envoys from 32 countries; India’s S. Jaishankar attended.
- BNP figures also criticized her 17-year sentence and eviction as politically driven, and NDTV reported Hasina is in self-imposed exile in India after her government was toppled last year.