{"id":16864,"date":"2020-09-28T10:59:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T05:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=16864"},"modified":"2020-09-28T10:59:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T05:59:27","slug":"bangladesh-attorney-general-dies-at-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/16864","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh attorney general dies at 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DHAKA, Bangladesh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh\u2019s Attorney General Mahbubey Alam died on Sunday while undergoing treatment in the capital Dhaka, officials confirmed. He was 71.<\/p>\n<p>The government&#8217;s chief law officer was first admitted to the Combined Military Hospital on Sept. 4 after being diagnosed with COVID-19, Rezaul Karim, a spokesperson at at the Ministry of Law, told Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe, however, made an improvement and tested negative for the novel infection,&#8221; he claimed. But his condition worsened, and was shifted to an intensive care unit on Sept. 18.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He died on Sunday at about 7.30 pm local time (1330 GMT),\u201d Karim said.<\/p>\n<p>The law and foreign ministries, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and President Abdul Hamid expressed grief over the demise, and extended their sympathies with the bereaved family.<\/p>\n<p>The top advocate was serving as the country&#8217;s attorney general since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>In his decades-long career since 1975, Alam represented the government in key cases, including the assassination of father of the nation Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and the controversial war crimes tribunal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA, Bangladesh Bangladesh\u2019s Attorney General Mahbubey Alam died on Sunday while undergoing treatment in the capital Dhaka, officials confirmed. He was 71. The government&#8217;s chief law officer was first admitted to the Combined Military Hospital on Sept. 4 after being diagnosed with COVID-19, Rezaul Karim, a spokesperson at at the Ministry of Law, told Anadolu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16865,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16864\/revisions\/16865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}