Sheikh Hasina is in an undisclosed location and has not spoken publicly since arriving at a military base near New Delhi on Monday after mass protests that brought Muhammad Yunus, 84, to power on Thursday.
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The son of Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina has warned against “the law of the crowd” and a possible “chaos” if elections were not organized quickly, in an interview with AFP broadcast on Sunday August 11. “Right now in Bangladesh, it’s mob rule”said Sajeeb Wazed Joy, 53, a former adviser to his mother, from Washington, where he lives, judging the current interim government “without any power”The fifty-year-old wanted to thank the Indian government of Narendra Modi “for saving life” of his mother and ensure her safety.
Sheikh Hasina is in an undisclosed location and has not spoken publicly since arriving at a military base near New Delhi on Monday after mass protests that swept Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, 84, to power on Thursday. Referring to the replacement of former aides to the prime minister, including the national police chief, the central bank governor and the chief justice, Sajeeb Wazed Joy said: “If the crowd says tomorrow: ‘No, we want this person out of the interim government’she will have to leave”.
At the same time, uBangladesh’s new chief justice has been sworn in, replacing a close aide to Sheikh Hasina’s previous government, the president’s office said on Sunday. Syed Refaat Ahmed, the most senior judge on the Supreme Court, became the “25th” president of the country’s highest judicial authority, the president’s press secretary told AFP. Appointed as head of the Supreme Court last year, his predecessor Obaidul Hassan resigned on Saturday, believing that he was not “no longer possible” to carry out his duties.
The announcement of his resignation came after an ultimatum from protesters, some of whom had gathered in front of the institution’s building. Obaidul Hassan notably oversaw a highly criticized war crimes tribunal that ordered the execution of opponents of Sheikh Hasina. His brother was the former prime minister’s secretary for many years. His resignation comes in the wake of a wave of ousters of figures seen as close to the former government, including the national police chief and the central bank governor.
