Zia, 79 years previous, has had well being issues for years, he’s confined to a wheelchair attributable to rheumatoid arthritis and likewise suffers from diabetes and liver cirrhosis.
Until Thursday, regardless of her launch, she had saved out of the highlight, aside from briefly talking at a political rally in a video message from a hospital mattress.
Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) mentioned greater than two dozen of its leaders have been additionally current.
Party basic secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir misplaced his calm and burst into tears when he noticed Zia on the occasion, Prothom Alo newspaper reported.
Zia spent a lot of her sentence beneath home arrest after being transferred from jail throughout COVID-19, however has been denied repeated requests to journey overseas for medical therapy.
Alamgir mentioned at a rally on Wednesday within the city of Feni that Zia was “very in poor health, having been held in jail on false fees in a small, damp cell.”
Bangladeshi media reported in October that Zia was anticipated to journey overseas for medical therapy within the close to future, with out giving a particular date.
