Exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin has criticized the death sentence :

Taslim Nasrin criticized  handed down to ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by the International Crimes Tribunal. She questioned why Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus and his associates have not faced similar investigations following last year’s student uprising that toppled Hasina’s government.

Exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin has sharply criticized the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) verdict against ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, questioning why Hasina is being treated as the criminal and not Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus and the “jihadi forces” she accuses him of supporting.

(Sheikh Hasina) 

In a historic verdict on Monday, the ICT sentenced Sheikh Hasina to death for crimes against humanity, including the killing of several people during last year’s student uprising that ultimately led to the collapse of her government.

The 63-year-old writer said, “The actions for which Yunus and his jihadi forces unjustly declare Hasina a criminal—when Yunus and those same jihadi forces commit the very same actions, they call them justified.” She further asked when the “spectacle in the name of justice” in Bangladesh would finally end.

She wrote, “When someone engages in vandalism and the sitting government orders security forces to open fire, the government does not call itself a criminal. So why is Hasina being labelled a criminal for ordering fire on those who carried out vandalism last July?”

In recent months, Nasrin has strongly criticized the Yunus-led administration and accused it of committing “crimes against humanity” after Hasina was removed from power. She has demanded that the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Yunus in 2006 be revoked and that he be sentenced to life imprisonment.

Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the Grameen Bank, which he founded, for their efforts toward economic and social development through pioneering concepts of microcredit and microfinance.