Скачать или смотреть Scenes outside hospital after former Bangladeshi prime minister Khaleda Zia dies, aged 80

(30 Dec 2025)
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Dhaka, Bangladesh - 30 December 2025
1. Various of BNP supporters mourning
2. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Nilufar Chowdhury Moni, BNP politician and former member of Bangladesh Parliament: ++STARTS ON SHOT 1++
“The struggle ahead is undoubtedly difficult not only for the BNP, but equally difficult for democracy in Bangladesh. Khaleda Zia herself represents a symbol of democracy.”
3. Man mourning
4. SOUNDBITE (Bangla/Arabic) Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Secretary-General of the BNP: ++STARTS ON SHOT 3 AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 5++
“At six o’clock this morning, the mother of our democracy, our guardian, our national guardian, has left us and passed away. (In Arabic) We belong to God, and to Him we shall return. (Bangla) This grief, this loss, is irreparable—one that this nation will never be able to make up for.”
5. Various of security, journalists and crowd in front of the hospital
STORYLINE:
Crowds mourned in Dhaka on Tuesday following the death of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia. She was 80.

Zia was the first woman elected prime minister of Bangladesh.

Bangladesh's interim government announced a three-day mourning period.

“The struggle ahead is undoubtedly difficult not only for the BNP, but equally difficult for democracy in Bangladesh," said Nilufar Chowdhury Moni, a politician for Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

"Khaleda Zia herself represents a symbol of democracy.”

A general holiday also was announced for Wednesday when Zia’s funeral prayers are scheduled be held in front of the country's national Parliament building in Dhaka.

Zia had faced corruption cases she said were politically motivated, but in January 2025 the Supreme Court acquitted Zia in the last corruption case against her, which would have let her run in February’s general election.

The BNP said that after she was released from prison due to illness in 2020, her family sought permission for treatment abroad at least 18 times from former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's administration, but the requests were rejected.

Following Hasina’s ouster in 2024, an interim government headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus finally allowed her to go.

She went to London in January and returned to Bangladesh in May.

AP video shot by: Al Emrun Garjon

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