A Chattogram court has sentenced BNP Vice Chairman Giasuddin Quader Chowdhury to three years in jail for making ‘assassination threats’ against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, reports bdnews24.com.
Giasuddin, the younger brother of executed war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, is currently absconding after securing bail in the case.
The court also imposed a Tk 5,000 fine on him with an additional three-month jail term for failure to pay the fine, said Additional Public Prosecutor Sameer Das Gupta.
In a discussion on the death anniversary of Ziaur Rahman on May 29 last year, Giasuddin said the fate of Hasina would turn out to be worse than that of her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was assassinated in 1975, according to the case dossier
A report based on the statement was published in a local newspaper.