Mahmudur to receive treatment at home

Daily Amardesh acting Editor Mahmudur Rahman said he will take his medical treatment in the country as his visa application was rejected by the UK government, reports UNB.

"Since I have no option to go abroad for my treatment, I will have to stay home and take the medical treatment locally," he told reporters while addressing a press conference at Dhaka Reporters' Unity on Tuesday.

The former energy adviser, who was released on bail on November 23 last year after serving three years and seven months in jail following his arrest on April 11, 2013 from his newspaper office, said he recently submitted an application seeking visa to visit UK.

But the British High Commission rejected his application showing a cause that the UK government thinks that he might not return home if he is granted visa, he noted.

Expressing his disappointment over the UK government's decision, Mahmudur said he had visited the UK several times in last 30 years and his last visit was in 2012 for conducting a surgery. "But I have no such intention to seek asylum to stay in the UK right now. Because, there is a court order that I will have to be back home within 30 days of leaving the country," he said.

Explaining the Supreme Court's conditional bail, he said the court granted him bail on health ground giving a condition that he could visit only the UK to conduct another surgery in London.