A Bangladeshi court has sentenced a Nobel Peace Prize winner to six months in jail - after more than 170 world leaders and Nobel laureates called for the legal proceedings to be suspended.
Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus and three other top officials of Grameen Telecom were sentenced to six months in jail by a labour court in Dhaka yesterday in a case filed over labour law violations.
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Muhammad Yunus, who pioneered using microcredit to help impoverished people, was accused of violating the country s labour laws - amid a tense political situation in Bangladesh.
The verdict of a labour law violation case filed against Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus and three top officials of Grameen Telecom will be delivered on January 1.