Nobel laureate economist Dr. Muhammad Yunus Greater than 160 world leaders, together with greater than 100 Nobel laureates, have written an open letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urging her to droop the trial of the case towards Muhammad Yunus and maintain honest elections. Later, 23 folks, together with 15 world leaders, signed it, growing the quantity to 183.
The letter was printed by Sam Daly-Harris, founding father of Outcomes and Civic Braveness. Earlier in March this yr, 40 world leaders wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Among the many signatories of the letter are former US President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta, former Irish President Mary Robinson, and former United Nations Secretary-Basic Ban Ki-moon.
The letter says we’re writing as a pal of Bangladesh together with Nobel Prize winners, elected officers, businessmen, and civil society leaders. We recognize the outstanding progress your nation has made since independence in 1971. Nevertheless, we’re deeply involved concerning the latest threats to democracy and human rights in Bangladesh. We consider that it is rather essential that the upcoming nationwide elections are free and honest and that the administration of the elections is suitable to all the key events within the nation. The earlier two nationwide elections lacked legitimacy.
Cease Judicial Harassment of Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus
The risk that considerations us within the current context is the case of Nobel Prize winner Prof. Dr. Muhammad Yunus. We’re involved that he has been focused not too long ago. We consider it’s steady judicial harassment. This letter is an try and construct on the sooner attraction to you by 40 world leaders involved about his security and freedom.
We humbly request that you simply instantly droop the current authorized proceedings towards Professor Yunus. The grievance will then be reviewed by a panel of neutral judges from inside your nation, with the chance to incorporate internationally acknowledged authorized specialists. We’re assured that any thorough evaluation of the anti-corruption and labor regulation circumstances towards him will exonerate him.
As you understand, Professor Yunus’ work on ‘How social business can obtain zero poverty, zero unemployment and 0 internet carbon emissions as a drive for worldwide progress’ is inspiring to all of us.
He’s a main instance of how Bangladesh and Bangladeshis have contributed to international progress in latest a long time. We sincerely want that he’s capable of proceed his modern actions free from persecution or harassment.
We hope you’ll resolve these authorized points in an expedient, neutral and honest method, the letter concluded. Aside from this, within the coming days, guarantee a free, honest and participatory nationwide election and all types of human rights. We’ll be part of tens of millions of involved residents all over the world in watching carefully how these points are resolved within the coming days.
183 folks signed the letter
Nobel Peace Prize Winner
- Barack Obama, 2009
- Jose Ramos-Horta, 1996
- Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, 2011
- Shirin Ebadi, 2003
- Leimah Roberta Bowie, 2011
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr., 2007
- Tawakkol Karman, 2011
- Dennis Mukwege, 2018
- Nadia Murad, 2018
- Maria Ressa, 2021
- Oscar Arias Sanchez, 1987
- Juan Manuel Santos, 2016
- Rigoberta MenchuTum, 1992
- Jody Williams, 1997
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Peter Aggrey, 2003
- Thomas R. Examine, 1989
- Martin Chalfie, 2008
- Emmanuel Sharpant, 2020
- Aaron Sichanover, 2004
- Johann Diesenhofer, 1988
- Jacques Dubochet, 2017
- Ewachim Frank, 2017
- Walter Gilbert, 1980
- Alan Heger, 2000
- Richard Henderson, 2017
- Dudley and Hershbach, 1986
- Avram Hershko, 2004
- Roald Hoffman, 1981
- Robert Huber, 1988
- Martin Karplus, 2013
- Brian Ok. Kobilka, 2012
- Yuan T. Lee, 1986
- Robert J. Lefkowitz, 2012
- Jean-Marie Lane, 1987
- Michael Levitt, 2013
- Thomas Lindahl, 2015
- Paul L. Modrich, 2015
- John C. Polanyi, 1986
- John Pierre Savage, 2016
- Sir John E. Walker, 1997
- Arieh Warshel, 2013
- Sir Gregory P. Winter, 2018
Nobel laureate in economics
- Oliver Hart, 2016
- Finn and Kidland, 2004
- Paul R. Milgrom, 2020
- Edmund Phelps, 2006
- Alvin E. Roth, 2012
- Vernon L. Smith, 2002
- Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2001
Nobel Prize in Literature
- JM Coetzee, 2003
- Harta Müller, 2009
- Orhan Pamuk, 2006
- Ole Soyinka, 1986
Nobel laureates in drugs
- Harvey J. Alter, 2020
- David Baltimore, 1975
- Frassoa Barre-Sinossi, 2008
- Michael Bishop, 1989
- Elizabeth H. Blackburn, 2009
- William C. Campbell, 2015
- Peter C. Doherty, 1996
- Jeffrey Connor Corridor, 2017
- Leland H. Hartwell, 2001
- Jules A. Hoffman, 2011
- Tasuku Honjo, 2018
- Robert Horvitz, 2002
- Sir Michael Houghton, 2020
- Craig C. Mello, 2006
- Edward Moser, 2014
- Could-Britt Moser, 2014
- Sir Paul M. Nurse, 2001
- Ardem Pataputian, 2021
- Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe, 2019
- Charles M. Rice, 2020
- Sir Richard J. Roberts, 1993
- Michael Rossbash, 2017
- Greg L. Seed, 2019
- Hamilton and Smith, 1978
- Jack W. Sostak, 2009
- Harold E. Varmus, 1989
- Eric F. Wishhouse, 1995
- Torsten N. Wiesel, 1981
- Michael W. Younger, 2017
Nobel laureates in physics
- Barry Clark Barish, 2017
- Steven Chu, 1997
- Andre Gimme, 2010
- Sheldon Glashaw, 1979
- David J. Gross, 2004
- John L. Corridor, 2005
- Takaki Kajita, 2015
- Anthony J. Leggett, 2003
- John C. Mather, 2006
- Michelle Mayer, 2019
- Arthur B. McDonald, 2015
- Konstantin Novoselov, 2010
- Giorgio Parisi, 2021
- James Peebles, 2019
- Roger Penrose, 2020
- William D. Phillips, 1997
- H. David Pulitzer, 2004
- Brian P. Schmidt, 2011
- Horst L. Stormer, 1998
- Daniel C. Swee, 1998
- Carl E. Wieman, 2001
- David J. Wineland, 2012
Elected officers, enterprise and civil society representatives
- Abdul Aziz Altawaizri, ISESCO Director Basic (1999-2019)
- Enzo Amendola, Member of Parliament, Italy and former Minister for European Affairs
- Ban Ki-moon, former UN Secretary-Basic
- Laura Boldrini, former President of the Italian Parliament
- Bono, musician and rights activist
- Dumitru Bragish, Prime Minister of Moldova (1999–2001)
- Sir Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Group
- Jasper Brodin, CEO, Inca Group (IKEA)
- Sharon Baro, former GS, Worldwide Commerce Union Confederation
- Kathy Calvin, former President and CEO, UN Basis
- Hillary Clinton, former US Secretary of State
- Emil Constantinescu, President of Romania (1996–2000)
- Mirko Četković, Prime Minister of Serbia (2008–2012)
- Sam Daly-Harris, Founder, Outcomes and Civic Braveness
- Marian Wright Edelman, Founder and President Emerita, Youngsters’s Protection Fund
- Maria Fernande Espinosa, President of the 73rd United Nations Basic Meeting
- Aminah Gurib Fakim, President of Mauritius (2015–2018)
- Cristiana Figueres, former United Nations Government Secretary for Local weather Change
- Walter Faust, Director Basic of the Swiss Company for Growth and Cooperation
- Peter Gabriel, musician
- Ron Garan, former NASA astronaut
- Kul Gautam, former Deputy Government Director of UNICEF and Assistant Secretary Basic of the United Nations
- Pamela Gillis, Former Vice-Chancellor and Professor Emeritus, Glasgow Caledonian College
- Goldmark Jr., former CEO, Rockefeller Basis and Worldwide Herald Tribune
- Justice Richard Goldstone, former South African decide and former Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations Worldwide Prison Tribunal for the previous Yugoslavia and Rwanda
- Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder, Jane Goodall Institute and United Nations Ambassador for Peace
- Mats Granried, Director Basic, GSMA
- John Hueco, CEO, Rotary Worldwide
- Andrew Hoffman, Vice Chairman, Roche Holding AG
- Ariana Huffington, Founder and CEO, Thrive International
- Md. Ibrahim, entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Mladen Ivanic, former President of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Baroness Helena Kennedy, KC Member of the Home of Lords UK
- Kerry Kennedy, President, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
- Vinod Khosla, Enterprise Capitalist
- Jalatko Lagumdzija, former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Annie Lennox, singer, songwriter and activist
- Yves Leterme, former Prime Minister of Belgium
- Igor Luksic, former Prime Minister of Montenegro
- Georgi Margvelashvili, former President of Georgia
- Rexhep Maidani, former president of Albania
- Hiro Mizuno, United Nations Particular Envoy for Revolutionary Finance and Sustainable Funding
- Narayan Murthy, Founder, Infosys
- Susan Ness, Board Member, Very important Voices International Partnership
- Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO, Acumen
- Francis Martin O’Donnell, SMOM Ambassador to Slovakia
- Jean Welwang, Founder CEO and President, Virgin United
- Dr. Michael Otto, Chairman of the Supervisory Board Otto Group
- Borut Pahr, former president of Slovenia
- Rosen Plevneliev, former President of Bulgaria
- Paul Polman, businessman
- Sir Malcolm Rifkind QC, former British Protection Secretary and International Secretary
- Lord George Robertson, former Secretary Basic, NATO
- Mary Robinson, former Prime Minister of Eire
- Ismail Serageldin, Co-Chair Nizami Ganjavi Worldwide Middle, World Financial institution Vice President 1992-2000, Emeritus Librarian of Alexandria
- Wayne Silby, Founding Chair, Calvert Funds
- Yardley Smith, actress
- Sharon Stone
- Petar Stoyanov, former President of Bulgaria
- Laimdota Strauzuma, former Prime Minister of Latvia
- Dr. David Suzuki, Professor Emeritus, College of British Columbia
- Boris Tadic, former president of Serbia
- Ek Tekshelashvili, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of International Affairs of Georgia
- Hamdi Ulukaya, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Chobani
- Raimonds Vejonis, former President of Latvia
- Melane S. Verveer, Government Director of the Georgetown Institute for Ladies, Peace and Safety, Georgetown College
- Brothers VK-Freiburga, former president of Latvia
- Filip Vujanovic, former President of Montenegro
- Kateryna Yushchenko, former First Girl of Ukraine
- Viktor Yushchenko, former president of Ukraine
- Nicola Zingaretti, Member of Parliament, Italy
Involved residents
- Susan Davis, New York, USA
- Rosneh Zafar, Lahore, Pakistan
- Dr. Eldrid Herrington, London, UK
- Joe Ousterhout, Lisbon, Portugal
- Beth Malcolm, Toronto, Canada
- Professor Dr. Morshed Nasir, Bangladesh
- Laura Mosedale, London, UK
- Dr. Sabrina Scherzer, Trondheim, Norway
