'Yunus can't touch my mother': Sheikh Hasina's son slams death verdict

Ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son, Sajeeb Wazed, connected Thursday alleged that country's interim person Muhammad Yunus would not beryllium capable to harm his mother. He insisted that “Yunus cannot interaction my parent and helium cannot bash thing to her.”His remarks travel astatine a clip erstwhile Hasina’s aboriginal hangs successful the equilibrium aft a tribunal successful Bangladesh sentenced her to decease implicit alleged engagement successful the deadly student-led uprising of 2024. The tribunal linked her to the convulsive crackdown that preceded her ouster. Chief advisor and interim person Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus welcomed the verdict, insisting that nary 1 is supra the law.Speaking to IANS, Wazed said: “They volition not beryllium capable to termination her, but they volition execute the verdict.

First of all, they can’t get her. And erstwhile determination is simply a regularisation of law, this full process volition get thrown out. Everything present is truthful amerciable and unconstitutional and violates each ineligible rule that, erstwhile determination is regularisation of law, everything volition get thrown retired and it volition not beryllium sustainable. So, Yunus cannot interaction my mother, and helium cannot bash thing to her.

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Launching a crisp onslaught connected Bangladesh’s extradition request, Sajeeb Wazed thanked India for protecting Hasina’s life.

He besides reacted to calls for Yunus’ Nobel Peace Prize to beryllium revoked amid allegations of rights abuses nether the interim administration. “Well, Nobel committees ne'er instrumentality backmost their prizes. But look astatine Nobel laureate

Aung San Suu Kyi

successful Myanmar. She won the Nobel Prize arsenic well. The Peace Prize is fundamentally fixed by lobbying. But she led to Rohingyas getting killed, and present Yunus is turning Bangladesh into a failed authorities and an Islamist violent state,” helium said.Asked what the Congress enactment successful India mightiness person done if it had been successful power, the Indian-origin person replied: “The Congress enactment would person done the nonstop aforesaid happening that the contiguous authorities has done. In India, determination is regularisation of instrumentality and you person law process. You radical person ever followed the Constitution and laws.”Wazed sharply criticised the proceedings process that ended successful Hasina’s decease sentence, calling it wholly illegal.

“This has been done wholly illegally. It’s a mockery. First of all, determination is simply a authorities that is unelected, unconstitutional, and illegal. Then, successful bid to fast-track the proceedings successful the tribunals, they had to amend laws, which you tin lone amend with a Parliament. Currently, determination is nary Parliament. So the process itself was wholly illegal.

They terminated 17 judges connected this tribunal and appointed a caller justice who has nary experience.

He has publically made a nasty remark astir my mother. So helium is intelligibly biased.”He accused authorities of denying Hasina her close to ineligible representation. “They person not allowed my parent to name immoderate lawyer. They appointed their ain lawyers to support my mother. In the past of Bangladesh, specified trials instrumentality years of hearings, but they completed this successful 140 days. So, it’s a implicit mockery of justice. There has been nary owed process.

This is simply a joke,” helium added.The ruling marks 1 of the astir consequential ineligible decisions against a erstwhile Bangladeshi person successful decades and comes months earlier nationalist elections expected successful aboriginal February. Hasina, 78, has refused to instrumentality from India for the trial. The tribunal examined allegations that she ordered a convulsive effect to the wide pupil uprising that yet forced her retired of powerfulness successful August 2024.The erstwhile premier curate -- Bangladesh’s longest-serving person -- is facing aggregate charges stemming from the play of unrest. A UN rights bureau study estimated that up to 1,400 radical were killed betwixt July 15 and August 15 during the “July Uprising,” which followed a sweeping information crackdown ordered by her government.