Overview
- Sheikh Hasina charged the Muhammad Yunus-led interim administration with persecuting non-Muslims and claimed it had seized power illegally.
- Her statement highlighted last week’s lynching of 25-year-old Hindu worker Dipu Chandra Das, whose body was hung from a tree and set on fire after false blasphemy accusations.
- Local media also reported the alleged lynching of another Hindu man, Amrit Mondal, late Wednesday in the Hossaindanga area of Kalimohar Union.
- Minority groups held a protest in Dhaka on Monday over what they described as the government’s failure to prevent persecution.
- An advocacy group, the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, has reported 2,442 incidents targeting minorities and more than 150 temples vandalised from August 2024 to July 2025.