The British government has issued an unreserved apology and paid £225,000 ($285,000) in libel damages to Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin. The Muslim community leader, who has lived in the UK since 1973 and been a British citizen since 1984, was falsely accused of being involved in war crimes during Bangladesh’s 1971 War of Independence. The payout is believed to be the largest libel payment ever made by a British government department to one of its citizens, the law firm Carter-Ruck stated. In a rare and high-profile public apology delivered at the High Court in London on 25 November 2025, the Home Secretary and the Home Office admitted to having published unsubstantiated and defamatory allegations against Mueen-Uddin in an official government report. Read: […]
