Muhammad Yunus, the chairman of Grameen Telecom and a Bangladeshi Nobel winner, and three other people were convicted to six months in prison on Monday for breaking labour laws by a Dhaka court.
Dhaka residents are questioning the verdict’s timeliness, given that it was rendered six days prior to the countrywide elections.
With the help of his microfinance bank, Grameen Bank, Yunus, 83, brought millions of Bangladeshis out of poverty and gained international recognition. Although he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, he and the Sheikh Hasina administration have never agreed. He is allegedly “sucking blood from the poor,” according to Hasina.
More than 170 world leaders, including the former US president Barack Obama, had pleaded with Hasina to put a halt to all legal measures against Yunus because they were concerned about the multiple cases against him.
In response, Hasina stated that she would invite lawyers and specialists from other countries to visit Bangladesh in order to evaluate the court case and look over the papers related to Yunus’s accusations.
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