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BNP Joint Secretary General Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal and 109 others were sentenced to jail yesterday in eight cases filed between 2010 and 2018 over political violence in the capital.

With this, at least 1,522 BNP-Jamaat activists have been jailed since November 7 this year in 91 cases lodged between June 2010 and December 2018 on charges of illegal gathering on the streets, rioting, damaging properties, arson attacks on vehicles, vandalism, and assaulting the law enforcers and obstructing them from discharging duties.

In a case filed with Dhanmondi Police Station in December 2013, a Dhaka court yesterday sentenced Alal, six other BNP leaders, and one Jamaat leader to 36 months imprisonment for rioting and damaging a vehicle.

Alal and Jubo Dal’s former president Saiful Alam Nirob were present in the courtroom when Dhaka Metropolitan On

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