Six British MPs plead for release of Hasina

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Freedom fighter Azizul Motu (left) from Sirajganj, briefing journalists and teachers' leader Shahjahan Alam Saju (middle) talking to police personnel after failing to call on Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina at the sub-jail in the city's Jatiya Sangsad Bh

Six British politicians have called for the Bangladesh authorities to release former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who has been detained on extortion charges, reports UNB.
In a letter to The Times newspaper in London, the group of six said they were gravely concerned about the manner in which Sheikh Hasina was arrested.
The letter is signed by MPs Anne Main, Simon Hughes and Harry Cohen, Charles Tannock and Baroness Ludford, and Baroness Udin.
They observed she posed no conceivable security risk and should be freed on bail so she could prepare her defence, BBC reported Monday.
"We are... gravely concerned about the undignified arrest this week of... Sheikh Hasina," the British politicians' letter published in The Times.
"We call upon the authorities to release her on bail so that she can prepare her defence. She has already surrendered her passport and poses no conceivable security risk or risk of attempting to evade justice," the group said in the letter.
The ex-PM and Awami League (AL) chief is among scores of politicians and other high-profile persons detained under the current drives launched in the interim period against serious crime and corruption.