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TOPSHOT - Bangladeshi Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus (C) appears in a court in Dhaka on January 1, 2024. Yunus was facing six months in jail with a court set to rule on January 1 on a labour law case decried by his supporters as politically motivated. (Photo by Munir uz zaman / AFP)
Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus was convicted on Monday of violating Bangladesh's labour laws, a prosecutor told AFP, in a case decried by his supporters as politically motivated.
"Professor Yunus and three of his Grameen Telecom colleagues were convicted under labour laws and sentenced to six months in simple imprisonment," prosecutor Khurshid Alam Khan told AFP, adding that all four were immediately granted bail pending appeals.