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In the face of controversy, the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the Commonwealth, an organization of British MPs, has withdrawn its critical report on the interim government. The Guardian reported.

The report, published last November, alleged that the Yunus government was using the law as a ‘political tool’. It also claimed that ‘hardline Islamists’ have been empowered in the country.

Recently, after the resignation of Sheikh Hasina’s niece, British Urban Affairs Minister Tulip Siddique, British MP of Bangladeshi origin, raised questions about the matter. She wrote on social media X (old Twitter), that the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the Commonwealth had spread incorrect information about the Yunus government.

She complained to the UK House of Commons about the ‘inconsistencies’ of the report. The APPG then withdrew it and decided to ‘review’ it again.

The Guardian says that the APPG report was made on behalf of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The APPG report, based on evidence from the New Delhi-based think tank ‘Rights and Risk Analysis Group’, says that the interim government has falsely accused former ministers, Awami League leaders, MPs, former judges, scholars, lawyers and journalists of murder.

The report expresses serious concerns about human rights and the rule of law under the interim government.

On December 4, Foreign Affairs Adviser Md. Touhid Hossain called on the British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Sarah Cook, to provide the UK government with accurate information on the situation of minorities in Bangladesh and the July-August student protests.

The adviser highlighted the absence of key information in the APPG report. In this case, he also raised the issue of not mentioning the incident of many students being shot dead on the streets before August 5.

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