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Over one thousand leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami, including BNP Standing Committee member and former minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, have been released from jail.
After a hearing, the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court granted them bail on Tuesday who were detained over the violence centering the recent protests, according to local media reports.
The released leaders are BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Mia Ghulam Parwar, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's special assistant Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas, Dhaka Metropolitan North BNP convener Saiful Alam Nirav, and Dhaka Metropolitan South Convener Rafiqul Islam Majnu.