The Bangladesh government on Wednesday turned a notorious jail into a courtroom to try ailing opposition leader Khaleda Zia on corruption charges. Her lawyers have said they will seek a ruling from a higher court to get the move overturned.
The prison was built in the 19th century. Four of Bangladesh’s founding leaders were killed there on the eve of a coup in November 1975 while hundreds of death row inmates were hanged there in the intervening decades.