By Online Desk, The CNN :
The United States has said that it will closely monitor the 12th National Assembly elections of Bangladesh. And there’s no telling what steps the election might take next. This was said in the regular briefing of the US State Department on Wednesday local time in the United States.
The chairman of Grameen Telecom and Nobel laureate economist in the case of violation of labor law. Muhammad Yunus has been sentenced to six months in prison. In the briefing, a journalist, Nobel-winning economist Dr. Muhammad wants to know about the imprisonment of Yunus.
He said, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom Dr. I would like to know your reaction to the prison sentence handed down by the Labor Court of Bangladesh on the first day of New Year against Muhammad Yunus. What is the State Department’s understanding of the state of the challenge to the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary in Bangladesh? In particular, Bangladesh’s first female Prime Minister and opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, and numerous opposition activists, media and human rights activists are facing a similar situation in similar cases, many of them more severe.
In response, Matthew Miller said, I think I’ve answered this question before. But since it is new year. So I will answer it again. We support a free and fair election in Bangladesh. We have made this clear several times. We will monitor the election closely. But of course I’m not going to say anything in advance about what action we may or may not take in response to the election.
