Khaleda Zia Arrested

Khaleda Zia About to be Arrested

People with access to Bangla TV channels: Any news on the "chaos"? What's going on?

A friend of a friend (yes, THAT old source) watching TV back home says that the "chaos" was more reporters than anything else. HOWEVER, the TV cameras went cold a while back, so we don't know the latest.

Update 8: Bdnews24 reports of "chaos hitting the front of CMM" as KZ arrives. What form this "chaos" took we don't know. Hopefully not rioting and property destruction. That explains the security measures mentioned in update 7. Bdnews says:

Security officials are battling chaos in front of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court for Dhaka as Khaleda Zia has arrived after arrest early Monday. The former prime minister and Coco were arrested shortly after 7:30am. The embattled former prime minister and her son were led away from their cantonment home in a security bubble.

Update 7: DS ticker reporting that "unprecedented security measures have been taken around CMM". Unprecedented? Really? More than during Mrs. Hasina's arrest? Perhaps just the same?

Update 6: It's official according to bdnews24:

The police arrested Khaleda Zia and her son Arafat Rahman Coco at their cantonment home early Monday, security officials said. She was arrested shortly after 7:30am along with Coco. The embattled former prime minister and her son were led away at 7:39am, in a security bubble. The move came hours after the Anticorruption Commission filed a corruption case against 13 people, including the former prime minister and the younger son. Police and RAB officers and intelligence agents swarmed the road to the Shaheed Mainul Road residence of the BNP chief. Khaleda will be taken to the court of metropolitan magistrate Md Salehuddin. Security officers put in place a huge security arrangement on the road to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court for Dhaka.

A commenter on my blog believes that she will be arrested but released on bail. I await further developments with much interest. Anyone with information, feel free to leave comments.

Update 5: Daily Star's all-too-frequent-in-2007 red banner says that she is expected to be produced in court soon.

Update 4: Shocholayoton blogger Onrinno says that the law enforcers are still inside her house. She's expected to be arrested and produced before a lower court at any moment.

Update 3: Much like Mrs. Hasina's last minute interview with bdnews24, Mrs. Zia has also granted them an interview:

In an exclusive interview with bdnews24.com, Khaleda Zia said: "I'm not afraid of arrest. People are with me. The case against me is false." The embattled former prime minister spoke to bdnews24.com's Senior Correspondent Sumon Mahmud as police arrived early Monday at her cantonment home apparently for arrest, hours after the Anticorruption Commission filed a corruption case against her and her son Arafat Rahman Coco. "Against the BNP, there was a conspiracy in the past. Still there is. I hope BNP leaders and workers stay united," she told bdnews24.com. "I worked for people all my life. I'm passing the burden of justice to people as well. Please pray for me," Khaleda told bdnews24.com by phone from home.

I don't mind these interviews. I just don't like politicians from every party crying out "the cases against me are false" and "conspiracy" every time they suffer political intimidation. If there were really these many "conspiracies" in Bangladesh, our GDP would have shot up a bit more!

In any case, how about some calls for "restraint" and "settling this in a court of law" instead of "passing the burden of justice to people"?

Update 2: Shamokal reporting that she's already arrested. When did this paper's internet edition come out?

Update: bdnews24 has this to say minutes after I posted this:

Scores of security officers in plainclothes drove into Dhaka cantonment early Monday amid wide speculation about the imminent arrest of Khaleda Zia. Police officers in plainclothes arrived at Khaleda's house on Shahid Mainul Road in the cantonment, house staffer Ruhul Amin told bdnews24.com at 5:40am Monday. Amin said the police asked Khaleda and her son Arafat Rahman Coco to "get ready". At least 10 cars in the first batch drove into the cantonment shortly after 5am, followed by another convoy of up to 25 cars, witnesses reported from the scene.

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Dhaka is once again the city of rumours. BDnews24.com reports that security was tightened around her residence, and the breaking news ticker says that "Police and RAB have driven into the cantonment".

Louis Kahn, here we go again...

Stay tuned folks.

Source: http://dhakashohor.blogspot.com/

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[DHAKAIA]

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[sushantaa]

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[DHAKAIA]

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[sushantaa]

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[DHAKAIA]

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[sushantaa]

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[mzcomms]

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[xajcrunkx]

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[INFONET007]

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[screemc9587]

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[realpatriot111]

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[cyrilhot]

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[cyrilhot]

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[DHAKAIA]

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