 "Bangladesh interim leader Muhammad Yunus meets family members of the three teachers killed in the plane crash at Milestone School and College at the State Guest House Jamuna at Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 19, 2025. (Photo: X/Chief Adviser of the Government of Bangladesh)")
Several Bangladeshis staged a protest outside the United Nations headquarters in New York on Friday against Bangladesh’s chief adviser Muhammad Yunus. The demonstrators, largely supporters of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, accused Yunus of persecuting minorities.
Protestors raised slogans of “Yunus is Pakistani. Go back to Pakistan” and carried banners that read “Stop killing minorities in Bangladesh” and “Say no to Islamist terrorism in Bangladesh.”
The protest coincided with world leaders gathering at the UN for the General Assembly.
“We are protesting against the illegal Yunus regime, as after the 5th of August 2024, former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had to leave the country for security reasons, and Yunus captured the country, and since then, minorities, Hindus and people from other religions have been killed since the 5th of August,” one protestor told ANI.
Another alleged that minorities were fleeing Bangladesh: “It’s a dire condition in Bangladesh, and this is the reason people are here to just protest, and Yunus has to leave the power and should go for an election.”
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“We are here today in front of the United Nations to protest against Dr Yunus, who is making Bangladesh a Taliban country, a terrorist country, and he is committing all the atrocities against the Hindus, Buddhists, Christians and all religious minorities,” a protestor said.
Calling Sheikh Hasina’s ouster “illegal,” another demonstrator claimed Yunus was working with Islamist forces and terrorist groups to transform Bangladesh into a “semi-Taliban nation.”
The protest came hours before Yunus delivered his second address at the UNGA since Sheikh Hasina’s fall following the 2024 youth-led uprising.