(6 Aug 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Dhaka, Bangladesh – 3 March 2024
1. Various of Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus with others entering Metropolitan Senior Judge court
2. Various of Yunus along with others coming out from court
3. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate:
“This is an historic event. A Nobel laureate has been accused of misappropriation, fraud and money laundering. The charges are not against me only. A total of seven of us have been accused. These people have worked hard their entire life for the poor people. They were not just employees. They dedicated their lives for the cause. These people have been accused of the same charges.”
4. Yunus leaving court
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ARCHIVE: Washington D.C. – 20 November 2006
5. Yunus taking seat as audience applauds
6. Various of Yunus at podium addressing audience
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Dhaka, Bangladesh – 1 January 2024
7. Various of Yunus along with others arriving to be present before labour court
8. Various of Yunus surrounded by journalists and police
9. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate:
“We have been penalised for a crime we didn’t commit. It was our fate as well as the nation’s. We have accepted this.”
10. Various of Yunus leaving court premises
STORYLINE:
A key organiser of Bangladesh’s student protests said Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus was their choice as head of an interim government a day after the longtime Prime Minister Sheik Hasina resigned.
The country’s figurehead president and the military chief said Monday that an interim government would be formed soon.
Nahid Islam, the organiser, in a video post on social media said the student protest leaders have already talked with Yunus, who consented to take over considering the present situation of the country. Yunus faced a number of corruption accusations and was put on trial during Hasina’s rule. He received the Nobel in 2006 after he pioneered microlending, and he said the corruption charges against him were motivated by vengeance.
Islam said the student protesters would announce more names for the government, and it would be a difficult challenge for the current leadership to ignore their choices.
Hasina resigned and fled the country Monday after weeks of protests against a quota system for government jobs descended into violence and grew into a broader challenge to her 15-year rule. Thousands of demonstrators stormed her official residence and other buildings associated with her party and family.
Her departure threatened to create even more instability in the densely populated South Asian nation that is already dealing with a series of crises, from high unemployment to corruption to climate change. Amid security concerns, the main airport in Dhaka, the capital, suspended operations.
Violence just before and after her resignation left at least 109 people dead and hundreds of others injured, according to media reports, which could not be independently confirmed. More than a dozen were reportedly killed when protesters set fire to a hotel owned by a leader in Hasina’s party in the southwestern town of Jashore. More violence at Savar, just outside Dhaka, at least 25 people died., the reports said. Another 10 people died in Dhaka’s Uttara neighbourhood.
Speaking after the embattled leader was seen in television footage boarding a military helicopter with her sister, Waker-uz-Zaman sought to reassure a jittery nation that order would be restored. Experts, though, warned the road ahead would be long.
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