Overview

• In a Zeteo interview in New York, the Bangladesh interim leader denied any rise in anti-Hindu violence, labeled coverage a “barrage of fake news,” and said incidents were routine neighbor disputes rather than religious persecution.
• India’s Ministry of External Affairs rejected his claims and urged Dhaka to investigate local extremist groups allegedly behind attacks on minorities.
• The Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Oikya Parishad criticized his remarks as a denial of reality, pointing to a UN fact-finding report that said attacks on minorities continue sporadically.
• At a UN Human Rights Council side event in Geneva, activists alleged severe abuses under the interim government, citing documented torture cases, killings of minority members, and hundreds of mob-lynching deaths.
• While in New York for UNGA, Yunus met UN Secretary-General António Guterres as protesters outside UN headquarters accused his government of persecuting minorities.