Dhaka, March 13 -- Some 70 individuals, including members of the British parliament, and 15 organisations from different countries have called for Shahriar Kabir, writer, researcher and president of the Advisory Board of the Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee, to be granted bail and to receive proper medical treatment.

Lord Rami Ranger, a member of the UK House of Lords, and Bob Blackman, a member of the House of Commons, have separately written to Prime Minister Tarique Rahman expressing their deep concern over the deteriorating health of the imprisoned Kabir.

In a separate letter to the prime minister from the organisation Genocide Watch, 68 representatives from various fields and 15 human rights organisations have echoed the sam...