Sheikh Hasina’s Son Slams Yunus After Death Verdict: “He Can’t Touch My Mother”

Ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son, Sajeeb Wazed, has said that Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus “will not be able to kill” his mother, dismissing the death sentence handed to her by Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal.

The tribunal on Monday sentenced Hasina — currently in exile in India — to death on charges of crimes against humanity, a ruling Wazed called entirely illegitimate.

“Yunus cannot touch my mother, and he cannot do anything to her,” Wazed told IANS, adding that the political situation in Bangladesh is “illegal and unconstitutional”. He insisted that once democratic norms return, the case against Hasina will collapse.
“They can’t get her. And once there is rule of law, this entire process will be thrown out. It violates every legal principle,” he said.

Asked whether Yunus’ Nobel Prize should be revoked in light of alleged human rights abuses under his interim government, Wazed said Nobel committees “never take back their prizes”, but drew parallels to Aung San Suu Kyi, arguing that the Peace Prize is often influenced by lobbying.
He claimed Yunus is “turning Bangladesh into a failed and Islamist terrorist state”.

Wazed also said that India’s BJP government — or even the Congress — would have acted similarly to protect Hasina, citing India’s strong constitutional framework.

Calling the judgement a “mockery”, he listed several grounds on which he believes the verdict is unlawful. He argued the interim government has no constitutional basis, amended tribunal laws without a Parliament, and replaced 17 judges, appointing a new one who had “publicly made nasty comments” about Hasina.

He further alleged that authorities denied Hasina the right to choose her own lawyer, fast-tracking a process that usually takes years into just 140 days.
“There has been no due process. This is a joke,” he said.