Ex-leader Ershad back in prison

Mon, 05 Feb 2001 | Source: AFP

DHAKA (AFP): Bangladesh's deposed military dictator Hussain Muhammad Ershad was sent back to prison, two days after being rushed to a hospital with chest pains, prison officials said on Sunday.

He was kept under observation for two days at the capital's Suhrawardy Hospital and sent back to the Dhaka central jail Saturday, officials said, without giving further details.

However, three prison officials have been suspended Ershad reportedly held a secret meeting of his faction of the Jatiya Party (JP) inside the hospital's coronary care unit, the Daily Star reported.

Ershad, 70, reportedly the party members to bail him out by paying a one million dollar fine for him as part of his sentence in a graft case.

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