Global Leaders Call on Bangladesh PM to Stop Persecuting Nobel Winner Yunus

By: Nava Thakuria

Recently, 40 global leaders including former United Nations General Secretary complained in an open letter to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed over her government’s treatment of the 82-year-old Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, whose brainchild of microfinance has revolutionized global lending to the poor, and who remains quit…