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| Ex-PM is arrested in Bangladesh | |
| (about 7 hours later) | |
| The military-backed interim government in Bangladesh has arrested former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and her son. | |
| Ms Zia faces charges of extortion and corruption and has been taken to a court in the centre of Dhaka. | |
| Another former Prime Minister - Sheikh Hasina, in custody since July - faces new corruption charges in addition to those of extortion and murder. | |
| Bangladesh has been under emergency rule since January when the army-backed interim government cancelled elections. | Bangladesh has been under emergency rule since January when the army-backed interim government cancelled elections. |
| It vowed then to tackle corruption and has arrested 150 senior politicians while banning most political activity. | It vowed then to tackle corruption and has arrested 150 senior politicians while banning most political activity. |
| Tight security | |
| Ms Zia and her younger son, Arafat Rahman Coco, were led to a court in Dhaka amid tight security after being arrested at her home at 0730 (0130 GMT). | |
| Security forces had surrounded the home since midnight (1800 GMT Sunday). | |
| Ms Zia - leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party - is facing charges of corruption and abuse of power for allegedly using her influence to determine the operators of two state container depots in 2003, during her second term as prime minister. | |
| Mr Coco is accused of pushing his mother to approve the deal. Eleven others are also named in the case. | |
| Ms Zia - who stepped down as prime minister in October 2006 - is also facing criminal charges connected with earlier tax evasion allegations. | |
| Bitter rival | Bitter rival |
| In the latest charges against Ms Zia's bitter rival Sheikh Hasina, the head of the Awami League, Bangladesh's anti-corruption commission accuses her of taking illegal payments from a private electricity firm totalling $435,000 (£215,000). | |
| Sheikh Hasina was arrested in July | |
| The commission said Sheikh Hasina had taken the money when she was in power between 1996 and 2000. | The commission said Sheikh Hasina had taken the money when she was in power between 1996 and 2000. |
| Sheikh Hasina denies all charges against her. | |
| Six other people, including former senior officials, have also been charged. | |
| This is the first charge brought against Sheikh Hasina by a government body, so is seen to carry more weight than the others, says the BBC's Mark Dummett in Dhaka. | This is the first charge brought against Sheikh Hasina by a government body, so is seen to carry more weight than the others, says the BBC's Mark Dummett in Dhaka. |
| Sheikh Hasina is being held in a house in the parliament complex. | Sheikh Hasina is being held in a house in the parliament complex. |