Factbox-Bangladesh's tangles with Yunus, Nobel winner and microloan founder

FILE PHOTO: Bangladeshi Nobel peace laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus gestures in front of the court after being sentenced to six months of imprisonment and fined BDT 5,000 in a labour law violation case, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 1, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain/File Photo

DHAKA (Reuters) - A Bangladesh court has sentenced the country's only Nobel laureate, Mohammad Yunus, to six months in jail over labour law violations, a crime he says he did not commit, days ahead of a Jan. 7 general election boycotted by the main opposition party.

Below is a summary of key facts in Yunus' tangles with the law in Bangladesh, with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina often criticising the 83-year-old, who won the peace prize in 2006 for his work in making microloans accessible to the impoverished: