At a side event during the 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Friday, activists and experts from South Asia and Europe expressed concern over human rights violations in Bangladesh under the interim government led by Chief Advisor Mohammad Yunus.

The event, organised by the Centre for Gender Justice and titled “Violations of Fundamental Human Rights, Rule of Law, and Democracy in Bangladesh," highlighted the rapid deterioration of the situation following the removal of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August last year.

Barrister Nijhoom Majumder, a Bangladeshi political activist based in the UK, delivered a stark warning about the geopolitical implications of the current crisis. He said, “Western power has captured indirectly. I always say that what is happenin

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