DHAKA: Exiled Bangladeshi author and human rights activist Taslima Nasreen on Wednesday said that the interim government's chief advisor Muhammad Yunus' tenure has been marked by grave and widespread human rights violations across the South Asian nation.
Slamming Yunus on the human rights abuses in Bangladesh, Nasreen took to her social media platform X and stated, "Credible reports indicate that mob violence, lynching, and communal attacks have occurred with alarming regularity -- often on a near-daily basis. Under his watch, women in Bangladesh are raped, silenced, intimidated, and terrorised, even as he lectures the international community on women's economic empowerment."
She highlighted that Yunus, founder of the New York-based nonprofit microfinance organisation Grameen America, has served as a Director and co-chair and has received compensation from the organisation for at least the past four years.