Ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son, Sajeeb Wazed, on Thursday alleged that nation’s interim chief Muhammad Yunus wouldn’t have the ability to hurt his mom. He insisted that “Yunus can’t contact my mom and he can’t do something to her.”His remarks come at a time when Hasina’s future hangs within the steadiness after a tribunal in Bangladesh sentenced her to dying over alleged involvement within the lethal student-led rebellion of 2024. The tribunal linked her to the violent crackdown that preceded her ouster. Chief adviser and interim chief Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus welcomed the decision, insisting that nobody is above the legislation.
Talking to IANS, Wazed stated: “They won’t be able to kill her, however they may execute the decision. To start with, they will’t get her. And as soon as there’s a rule of legislation, this whole course of will get thrown out. Every little thing right here is so unlawful and unconstitutional and violates each authorized precept that, as soon as there’s rule of legislation, every little thing will get thrown out and it’ll not be sustainable. So, Yunus can’t contact my mom, and he can’t do something to her.”Launching a pointy assault on Bangladesh’s extradition request, Sajeeb Wazed thanked India for safeguarding Hasina’s life.He additionally reacted to requires Yunus’ Nobel Peace Prize to be revoked amid allegations of rights abuses below the interim administration. “Properly, Nobel committees by no means take again their prizes. However take a look at Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar. She received the Nobel Prize as effectively. The Peace Prize is mainly given by lobbying. However she led to Rohingyas getting killed, and now Yunus is popping Bangladesh right into a failed state and an Islamist terrorist state,” he stated.Requested what the Congress get together in India might need performed if it had been in energy, the Indian-origin politician replied: “The Congress get together would have performed the very same factor that the current authorities has performed. In India, there’s rule of legislation and you’ve got constitutional course of. You folks have at all times adopted the Structure and legal guidelines.”Wazed sharply criticised the trial course of that resulted in Hasina’s dying sentence, calling it solely unlawful. “This has been performed utterly illegally. It’s a mockery. To start with, there’s a authorities that’s unelected, unconstitutional, and unlawful. Then, to be able to fast-track the trial within the tribunals, they needed to amend legal guidelines, which you’ll be able to solely amend with a Parliament. At present, there isn’t any Parliament. So the method itself was utterly unlawful. They terminated 17 judges on this tribunal and appointed a brand new decide who has no expertise. He has publicly made a nasty remark about my mom. So he’s clearly biased.”He accused authorities of denying Hasina her proper to authorized illustration. “They haven’t allowed my mom to nominate any lawyer. They appointed their very own attorneys to defend my mom. Within the historical past of Bangladesh, such trials take years of hearings, however they accomplished this in 140 days. So, it’s an entire mockery of justice. There was no due course of. This can be a joke,” he added.The ruling marks probably the most consequential authorized choices in opposition to a former Bangladeshi chief in many years and comes months earlier than nationwide elections anticipated in early February. Hasina, 78, has refused to return from India for the trial. The court docket examined allegations that she ordered a violent response to the mass scholar rebellion that ultimately compelled her out of energy in August 2024.The previous prime minister — Bangladesh’s longest-serving chief — is going through a number of expenses stemming from the interval of unrest. A UN rights workplace report estimated that as much as 1,400 folks had been killed between July 15 and August 15 through the “July Rebellion,” which adopted a sweeping safety crackdown ordered by her authorities.