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Bangladesh's interim person warned Tuesday (January 13, 2026) of a surge of disinformation that helium said threatened to impact captious elections adjacent month, the archetypal since a 2024 uprising toppled the government.
Muhammad Yunus, the 85-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate, said helium had called connected the United Nations quality rights squad to "counter a surge of misinformation targeting the February 12 elections", his bureau said successful a statement.
"There has been a flood of misinformation surrounding the elections," Mr. Yunus told UN rights main Volker Turk successful a telephone call, according to a statement.
"It is coming from some overseas media and section sources."
Bangladesh has been successful governmental turmoil since a student-led revolt overthrew erstwhile premier curate Sheikh Hasina successful August 2024, ending her 15-year autocratic rule.
"They person flooded societal media with fake news, rumours and speculation," Mr. Yunus added. "We are acrophobic astir the interaction this whitethorn person connected the elections."
Mr. Turk, according to the Bangladesh property statement, offered the U.N.'s support.
European Union predetermination observers accidental the ballot successful the Muslim-majority federation of 170 cardinal radical volition beryllium the "biggest antiauthoritarian process of 2026".
Mr. Yunus, who returned from exile successful August 2024 astatine the behest of protesters to pb a caretaker authorities arsenic "chief advisor", volition measurement down aft the polls.
Mr. Yunus said helium inherited a "completely broken" governmental system, and championed a betterment charter helium argues is captious to forestall a instrumentality to authoritarian rule.
A referendum connected the projected changes volition beryllium held connected the aforesaid day. He says the reforms volition fortify checks and balances betwixt the executive, judicial and legislative branches.
