DHAKA (Reuters) - A Bangladesh court on Wednesday sentenced the exiled acting chairman of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and his wife to jail in absentia after finding them guilty of accumulating wealth beyond their declared income.
The sentences come amid large BNP protest rallies, calling for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to step down and for the next election, due in January, to be held under a neutral caretaker government - a demand her government has rejected.
