‘Can’t Touch My Mother’: Hasina’s Son Says Yunus Can’t Kill Ousted Bangladesh PM

Last Updated:November 20, 2025, 19:23 IST

Ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's son, Sajeeb Wazed, said Muhammad Yunus won’t be able to do anything to his mother.

Sajeeb Wazed also said that Yunus is turning Bangladesh into a failed state and an Islamist terrorist state. (IMAGE: REUTERS)

Ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son, Sajeeb Wazed, on Thursday said Muhammad Yunus cannot “touch his mother", in reference to the death sentence handed to his mother over deaths during violent student-led 2024 July quota reform protests.

“They will not be able to kill her, but they will execute the verdict. First of all, they can’t get her. And once there is a rule of law, this entire process will get thrown out. Everything here is so illegal and unconstitutional and violates every legal principle that, once there is rule of law, everything will get thrown out and it will not be sustainable," Wazed told news agency IANS.

“So, Yunus cannot touch my mother, and he cannot do anything to her".

Sajeeb Wazed also said that Yunus is turning Bangladesh into a failed state and an Islamist terrorist state.

Hasina was sentenced to death by a Dhaka court on Monday, for charges that included ordering the security forces to use deadly force against protesters.

She was assigned a state-appointed lawyer for the trial, called the verdict “biased and politically motivated" in a statement issued from hiding in India.

“Its guilty verdict against me was a foregone conclusion," Hasina said.

She can appeal against her sentence — if she is arrested or surrenders, her defence lawyer Md Amir Hossain said.

He also signalled that it is unlikely that Yunus will be stripped off the Nobel Prize he had won. “Nobel committees never take back their prizes. But look at Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar. She won the Nobel Prize as well. The Peace Prize is basically given by lobbying. But she led to Rohingyas getting killed, and now Yunus is turning Bangladesh into a failed state and an Islamist terrorist state," he further added.

The United Nations says up to 1,400 people were killed in the violence during the student-led uprising to oust Hasina, segments of which were hijacked by Islamists and Pakistan-leaning, anti-Hasina Bangladeshi elements.

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