Anisul Haq was talking to journalists when he reached the Secretariat on Sunday after taking charge of the Law Ministry for the third term.
At that time a journalist asked the Law Minister about the statement issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
In response, referring to the violence that took place during the elections, he said that nothing happened on such a large scale that anyone would think that violence had taken place on a large scale. Furthermore, BNP and Jamaat leaders and activists were not jailed for political reasons; He stressed that they were facing specific charges and that the trial was pending.