BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday said the government has to take full responsibility for the "unnatural death" of Supreme Court lawyer MU Ahmed in police custody.
"The government is responsible for MU Ahmed's death. It was not a natural death as he was under custody. Law enforcers tortured him after his arrest. That is why the government cannot avoid the responsibility," Khaleda, now in Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah, said in a statement.
Shairul Kabir Khan, an official of the chairperson's press wing, told The Daily Star that the chairperson expressed deep shock over the lawyer's death.
"Ahmed's death is nothing but a planned murder. It is part of the government's conspiracy to wipe out the opposition and a clear violation of human rights," Shairul quoted Khaleda as saying.
Meanwhile, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said they will stage countrywide demonstrations today to protest the "killing of Ahmed."
A protest rally will also be held in front of the party's central office after the Namaz-e-Janaza of MU Ahmed in the afternoon.
MU Ahmed, known as a pro-BNP lawyer, was arrested over a pandemonium at a High Court bench on August 2. He passed away yesterday in the capital's Square Hospital.
Source : The Daily Star
