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Another 59 leaders and activists of BNP-Jamaat and their front organisations were yesterday sentenced to different jail terms in five cases filed between January 2012 and November 2018 over political violence in Dhaka.

With this, at least 674 BNP-Jamaat men have been jailed since November 7 this year in 36 cases filed on charges of illegal gatherings on the streets, rioting, damaging properties, arson attacks on vehicles, vandalism, and assaulting police and obstructing them from discharging duties.

In a case filed with Tejgaon Police Station in March 2013, 10 leaders and activists of BNP and its front organisations were each given 30 months’ rigorous imprisonment by a Dhaka court yesterday.

Jubo Dal’s former president Saiful Alam Nirob and former ward councillor of Dhaka City Corporation Md Anwaruzzaman are among the convicts.

They were the only two of the 10 convicts present in the courtroom when Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md During In

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