{"id":60860,"date":"2024-01-01T20:22:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T11:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/01\/nobel-laureate-muhammad-yunus-convicted-bangladesh"},"modified":"2024-01-01T20:22:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T11:22:52","slug":"nobel-laureate-muhammad-yunus-convicted-of-violating-bangladeshs-labour-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60860","title":{"rendered":"Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus convicted of violating Bangladesh\u2019s labour laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prizewinner has earned the enmity of the prime minister, who accused him of \u2018sucking blood\u2019 from poor people<\/p>\n<p>Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus has been convicted of violating Bangladesh\u2019s labour laws in a case decried by his supporters as politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>The 83-year-old is credited with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2013\/may\/24\/muhammad-yunus-business-solve-problems\">lifting millions out of poverty<\/a> with his pioneering microfinance bank, but has earned the enmity of Sheikh Hasina, the longtime prime minister who has accused him of \u201csucking blood\u201d from poor people.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/01\/nobel-laureate-muhammad-yunus-convicted-bangladesh\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prizewinner has earned the enmity of the prime minister, who accused him of \u2018sucking blood\u2019 from poor peopleNobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus has been convicted of violating Bangladesh\u2019s labour laws in a case decried by his supporters as politically &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3591,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,1655,2816,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-nobel-peace-prize","category-sheikh-hasina","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60867,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60860\/revisions\/60867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}