The head of Bangladesh’s interim government says the high-profile resignations of authorities close to ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina are legal after student leaders who organized protests against Hasina’s government issued ultimatums for them to quit.
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Syed Refaat Ahmed was appointed the new chief justice on Sunday after his name was proposed by student leaders of the protests. He said he accepted"because these are the guys who broke the local government," describing it as a “student-led revolution."The interim government is expected to announce a new election, but it is not clear when it will be held.
Yunus ran into trouble with Hasina in 2008, when her administration launched a series of investigations into him and his Grameen Bank. He was put on trial in 2013 on charges of receiving money without government permission, including his Nobel Prize and royalties from a book.
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