Mafizul Huq: The footage of the conversation between the US President Trump and Priya Saha, who is one of the organizing secretaries of Bangladesh Hindu-Bauddha-Christian Oikya Parishad, quickly has gone viral on different social media flat-forms. She was seen telling the president, “Sir, I’m from Bangladesh… 37 million Hindus, Buddhists, and Christians are disappeared…” Obviously, she had not meant to imply that all the disappeared Hindus were killed by the Muslim fundamentalists. In the post-partition Pakistan era and Bangladesh, the majority of Hindus who disappeared into thin air will not be coming back to their country of origin because many…
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed the NGO-activist Priya Saha to move with a soft attitude amidst condemnation of the ruling party leaders and ministers against US President Donald Trump’s torture of minorities in Bangladesh. The ruling Awami League general secretary, Obaidul Quader, on Saturday also called for a severe punishment for Priya Saha’s statement, calling it a “seditious act”. After a meeting of religious minorities in Washington, representatives of countries around the world went to the White House on Wednesday and complained to Priya Trump that the number of minorities in the face of persecution in Bangladesh was declining.…
Priya Saha, a beleaguered activist who works for minority rights, has stood by her remarks on the alleged persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh to US President Donald Trump during a meeting at the White House. In a YouTube video posted by her rights organization SHAREE on Sunday, Saha, referring to a study by Dhaka University teacher Abul Barkat said, 632 people disappear from Bangladesh every day.Saha said she had worked with Prof Barkat on the study and “that’s how I’m aware of this.” She also commented on her most controversial claim that 37 million people of minority groups have disappeared…
Economist Prof Abul Barkat has rebuked Priya Saha for ‘distorting’ his research findings after the embattled minority rights activist said she referred to his study when explaining her controversial remarks to President Donald Trump about the persecution of minorities in Bangladesh. In a statement issued on Monday, the president of Bangladesh Economic Association said: “As a social scientist, I want to be assured that Priya Saha will immediately retract the statements that she quoted using my name which are confounding and repugnant to principle.” The statement comes after Priya, who is currently in the US, sought to explain herself in…
Hasina has asked her officials to first get Priya Saha’s side of the story. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has disapproved a planned government move to file sedition charges against a Hindu woman who told US President Donald Trump in Washington that the minority communities in her country were being persecuted, a senior minister said on Sunday. Priya Saha, organising secretary of the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council (HBCUC), attended a meeting at the White House on July 19 and a video of the meeting with Trump subsequently went viral on social media, sparking a controversy back home. In…
On Monday, author-in-exile Taslima Nasreen threw her weight behind Priya Saha – the Bangladeshi minority leader who told Trump about atrocities against minorities in her native land. Nasreen said that Saha might have made a linguistic faux pas while saying ‘disappeared’ but there was no denying that millions were missing. She wrote: “Priya Saha may be used wrong word ‘disappeared’,but the number of missing people is, of course, many millions. Muslim fanatics are furious at her. Hasina should provide Priya Saha security. Hindus were 29.7 of the total population during 1947,they are now only 9.7%. Not alarming?” 1. Nasreen was…
Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Oikya Parishad today suspended its Organising Secretary Priya Saha for her “anti-disciplinary activities”. The organisation made the announcement in a press statement after an emergency meeting of its standing committee in Dhaka this afternoon, four days after her comments during an interaction with US President Donald Trump that 37 million Hindus, Buddhists and Christians have disappeared in Bangladesh. “We have suspended Priya Saha from all organisational activities for her anti-disciplinary activities and the decision will be effective immediately,” Manindra Kumar Nath, a presidium member and founding general secretary of the organisation, said in the press statement.…
Star Online Report Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ICT Affairs Adviser and son Sajeeb Wazed Joy today blasted the US embassy alleging that it is “the one that had an ulterior motive” behind what Priya Biswas Saha told Donald Trump recently. “They picked Priya Saha because they knew she would make this outrageous statement,” Sajeeb Wazed Joy wrote on his Facebook wall this afternoon. Also READ: Sedition case filed against Priya Saha In the post, Joy demanded that the US embassy’s should refute “an obviously false and outrageous statement made by one of their selected participants to their own Head of State…” as he…
Two sedition cases have been filed against Priya Saha, one of the organising secretaries of Bangladesh Hindu-Bouddha-Christian Oikya Parishad, in Sylhet. Sylhet City Jubo League convener committee member Rimad Ahmed Rubel and Sylhet Chhatra League’a former leader Advocate Sarwar Mahmud filed the cases with the district’s Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Sunday. The court took the cases into account and to give order later. Earlier this morning, three cases were filed against Priya Saha in Dhaka and Brahmanbaria on sedition charges. In a video clip on July 18, Priya Saha was seen telling US President Donald Trump, among other…
Transport Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said Priyabala Saha, who complained of minority oppression in Bangladesh to US President Donald Trump, should be given a chance a to explain herself, reports UNB. Priya claimed that 37 million Hindus, Buddhists and Christians had disappeared from Bangladesh and that her home was torched and her land was grabbed by Muslim fundamentalists. “The reasons for making such allegations should be investigated. I think she should be given a chance to defend herself when she returns home,” Quader told the media after attending the license handover ceremony of MRT Line 6 at Bangabandhu International…
A Dhaka court has dismissed a plea to sue against Priya Saha, over sedition charges by Supreme Court lawyer and International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) prosecutor Barrister Syed Sayedul Haque Suman on Sunday. The woman who made a complaint to United States’ President Donald Trump alleging 37 million minority’s disappearance that is blatant false and urged to take steps against Bangladesh. Earlier in the day, Suman filed a case over sedition charges against Priya Saha with a court led by Dhaka Metropolitan Judge Ziaur Rahman. The court has recorded deposition of the plaintiff and is scheduled to pass order in this…
Dhaka, July 21 (IBNS): A Dhaka court on Sunday rejected a sedition case filed against Bangladeshi national Priya Saha for making remarks on religious persecution in her country during her meeting with US President Donald Trump. On July 18, Priya, one of the organising secretaries of Bangladesh Hindu-Bouddha-Christian Oikya Parishad, told the US president that 37 million Hindu, Buddhist and Christian people have disappeared from Bangladesh. “Please help us, there are still 18 million minority people, we do not want to leave our country,” she told Trump. “I have lost my home, they burned my home, they have taken my…