DHAKA: Bangladesh police banned side road protests today forward of a verdict towards towards opposition leader Khaleda Zia, whose birthday party says greater than one thousand of its activists had been detained.
Zia, 72, would possibly resist life in prison if discovered responsible on Thursday on fees of embezzling $252,000.
Her Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) says police and other safety forces have detained greater than one thousand of its activists and officers in a national crackdown before the decision.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police said it feared opposition parties may "create anarchy" if she was convicted.
Her birthday party says the fees towards the two-time top minister are politically motivated.
"I hereby declare that no processions- by standing up or sitting down- will be allowed on the roads that block public or vehicular movements," Dhaka police chief Asaduzzaman Mia said in a commentary.
BNP spokesman Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said police were raiding properties and workplaces of opposition activists and supporters to detain them.
"The government is turning the country into a police state," he told AFP, saying police have so far detained nearly 1,200 BNP activists since January 30.
"They are hijacking the people's right to protest by silencing them."
A police spokesperson may not verify the selection of arrests.
Prothom Alo, the country's biggest flow Bengali day by day, put the selection of arrests at greater than 1,100 together with 431 on Monday by myself.
Senior BNP officers together with former minister Amanullah Aman are amongst those arrested.
Political demonstrations by Zia's centre-right BNP and its Islamist allies in 2014 and 2015 left nearly 200 folks lifeless.
A conviction may prohibit Zia's participation in elections to be held at the end of this yr.
The BNP boycotted 2014 polls however is expected to contest the impending general election.
Zia, 72, would possibly resist life in prison if discovered responsible on Thursday on fees of embezzling $252,000.
Her Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) says police and other safety forces have detained greater than one thousand of its activists and officers in a national crackdown before the decision.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police said it feared opposition parties may "create anarchy" if she was convicted.
Her birthday party says the fees towards the two-time top minister are politically motivated.
"I hereby declare that no processions- by standing up or sitting down- will be allowed on the roads that block public or vehicular movements," Dhaka police chief Asaduzzaman Mia said in a commentary.
BNP spokesman Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said police were raiding properties and workplaces of opposition activists and supporters to detain them.
"The government is turning the country into a police state," he told AFP, saying police have so far detained nearly 1,200 BNP activists since January 30.
"They are hijacking the people's right to protest by silencing them."
A police spokesperson may not verify the selection of arrests.
Prothom Alo, the country's biggest flow Bengali day by day, put the selection of arrests at greater than 1,100 together with 431 on Monday by myself.
Senior BNP officers together with former minister Amanullah Aman are amongst those arrested.
Political demonstrations by Zia's centre-right BNP and its Islamist allies in 2014 and 2015 left nearly 200 folks lifeless.
A conviction may prohibit Zia's participation in elections to be held at the end of this yr.
The BNP boycotted 2014 polls however is expected to contest the impending general election.
Bangladesh bans street protests ahead of Khaleda Zia's verdict
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