London, June 11 -- Hundreds of protestors gathered outside the Heathrow Airport and also at a Central London hotel as Bangladesh's interim government's Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus began a four-day visit to the United Kingdom this week. Carrying black flags and banners, protestors shouted slogans like "Go back Yunus", labelling him as a promoter of militancy and radicalism in Bangladesh.

Many also demanded the immediate release of detained Hindu priest Chinmoy Krishna Das, asserting that it should be Yunus instead who should face the trial and be behind bars.

Several eyewitnesses said that demonstrators, most of them from the Awami League and comprising Bangladeshis living in the UK after being forced to flee the country since Yunus' ac...