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Al Jazeera
Faisal Mahmud

Why world figures urged Bangladesh to stop ‘harassment’ of a Nobel laureate

Mohammad Yunus speaks during the opening ceremony for the One Young World summit at Soccer City in Johannesburg [File: Themba Hadebe/AP]

Dhaka, Bangladesh – Three Nobel Peace Prize winners visited Bangladesh five years ago and met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and other top government officials and civil society activists.

The trio – Iran’s Shirin Ebadi, Yemen’s Tawakkol Karman and Northern Ireland’s Mairead Maguire – also visited southern Bangladesh to meet the Rohingya, a persecuted and displaced minority group from Myanmar sheltered in the world’s largest refugee camp.

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