, Aug. 15 -- Claiming that their party Chairperson Khaleda Zia was subjected to extreme repression during her time in jail, BNP senior leader Mirza Abbas on Friday demanded that those responsible be brought to trial.

"National leader Begum Khaleda Zia had been subjected to extreme torture in prison," he said while addressing a milad and doa mahfil.

Abbas, a BNP Standing Committee member, said Khaleda was kept in an abandoned part of the old central jail in extremely poor and unhealthy conditions.

He said she was placed in a room infested with rats and insects, where even an animal would struggle to survive, let alone a human being.

"Some deputy jailers and jail officials unfairly kept her in a room on the roof. From this event, I want...