DHAKA: Forty global figures, including Ban Ki-moon, Hillary Clinton and Bono, published on Wednesday a joint letter calling on Bangladesh to stop the "unfair" attacks and harassment of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.

Yunus is credited with lifting millions out of poverty with his pioneering microcredit bank, but he has fallen out with Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who has said he is "sucking blood" from the poor.

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