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Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is granted bail in a Bangladesh graft case
Credit: IndiaTimes- Published on March 3, 2024
A court in Bangladesh has granted bail to Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus in a $2.3 million embezzlement case. Yunus, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering microcredit to aid impoverished people, was sentenced to six months in prison in January on a separate charge of violating labor laws; he has appealed that decision.
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Published on March 5, 2024 - 01:41
Nobel winner Yunus says rights have 'disappeared' in Bangladesh
Bangladeshi Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus says the right to free expression has 'kind of disappeared' for government opponents in his country. Yunus says many believe Bangladesh's prime mininster Sheikh Hasina views him as a political threat.
"She uses government occasions, very official occasions, makes very serious speeches. And in these speeches she calls me a bloodsucker, she calls me all the dirty things that she can come up with," he says.