BNP asks govt to withdrawal all cases against Dr Yunus

Staff Reporter :
The main opposition party BNP on Tuesday demanded an immediate withdrawal of all cases filed against the lone Bangladeshi Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the demand in a statement.

The BNP Secretary General described Dr Muhammad Yunus as a ‘sun child’ of the nation.

The BNP’s reaction has come in the wake of an open letter of global leaders and Nobel laureates urging Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to halt the current trial proceedings against Dr Muhammad Yunus.

“All cases against Dr Yunus should be withdrawn immediately…..

Even, a hundred years later, the nation will remember him with respect and be ashamed of thinking that such a nobleman was treated so badly by the government of the country,” Mirza Fakhrul said.

The BNP leader described Dr Yunus as a famous person of this country.

“Those who want to put down and insult him won’t be able to reach the same stature as him even if they are born again,” he said.

The BNP leader asked the government to accept this inevitable truth and stop insulting him and halt all lawsuits against him.

Earlier on Monday, more than 160 global leaders, including over 100 Nobel Laureates, sent an open letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressing their deep concern about the safety and well-being of Professor Muhammad Yunus.

“One of the threats to human rights that concern us in the present background is the case of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus,” the letter read.

“We are worried that he has recently been targeted by what we believe to be continuous judicial aggravation,” they said in the letter.

The letter was addressed directly to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and was signed by Nobel Prize laureates, elected leaders, business figures, and civil society leaders.