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An appellate court in Bangladesh granted bail to Nobel laureate Muhammed Yunus on Sunday, as reported by a local media. Yunus was previously sentenced to six month imprisonment for labour law violations in his company Garameen Telecom. Following this bail order, an appeal will now be heard against his case. Yunus was awarded the Nobel [...]

A bipartisan group of US Senators, led by Majority Whip Dick Durbin and Senator Todd Young, sent a letter to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday, expressing concern over the alleged harassment of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, who was convicted by a Bangladesh labor law court in early January. The letter [...]

The İstanbul 33rd Criminal Court of First Instance Tuesday fined Mohammed Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, son of Somalia’s president, 27,300 Turkish lira over causing death by negligence, according to state media Anadolu Agency. Mohamud negligently caused the death of Yunus Emre Göçer, a motorcycle courier, on November 30, 2023 when the car he drove collided with [...]

A Bangladeshi labor court has convicted Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus and three of his associates from Grameen Telecom, a company founded by Yunus, for violating the country’s labor laws. Each of the accused were sentenced to six months in jail on Monday. However, the court immediately granted all four bail, pending appeal. Yunus was [...]

UN experts released a statement on Tuesday raising concerns about the escalating human rights situation in Bangladesh. The statement, issued as the UN Human Rights Council concludes its periodic review of Bangladesh’s human rights record, points to a severe crackdown on human rights across multiple fronts. The experts highlighted a disturbing surge in political violence, [...]

The Supreme Court of India Friday granted bail to eight life convicts in the 2002 Godhra train burning, which led to the death of at least 58 people at the Godhra railway station in Gujarat, India and fueled large-scale riots in the region. In considering whether to grant bail to the eight convicts, the Supreme [...]

The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, the highest court in Russia, on Thursday upheld a decision to draw a border between the Republics of Ingushetia and Chechnya. In September the two Republics signed an agreement to define the border between them. This was the first time that the border has been defined since the [...]

Two UN human rights experts on Tuesday called on the Philippines government to investigate the deaths of three human rights defenders in the province of Surigao del Sur, Mindanao. One activist, the director of the Alternative Learning...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Tuesday condemned the recent "crackdown" on dissent in Azerbaijan, denouncing the imprisonment of journalist and human rights activist Khadija Ismayilova . In particular, Zeid...

A group of UN human rights experts on Thursday condemned an Azerbaijan court for the convictions of prominent human rights activists Leyla and Arif Yunus. The experts called the convictions "politically motivated and representative of the continuing...