Withdraw lawsuits against Dr Yunus: Mirza Fakhrul
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has called for withdrawing all lawsuits against Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus.
"A hundred years later the people of this nation will remember him [Yunus] with reverence and will be ashamed to think that such a noble man was treated so badly by this government. All cases against him should be withdrawn immediately," said Fakhrul in a statement sent to the media on Tuesday.
Fakhrul said, "Professor Yunus is an eminent person of this country. Those who want to belittle him and insult him will never be able to reach the same height as him even if they are born again.
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"Accept this inevitable fact and stop harassing him."
Mirza Fakhrul made the comment a day after over 170 global leaders, including more than 100 Nobel laureates, wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, demanding an immediate halt to the ongoing judicial proceedings against Dr Yunus on charges of labour law violations.
