Sajeeb Wazed Joy

Wazed was born in Dhaka during the Bangladesh Liberation War on 27 July 1971. His parents are Dr. M. A. Wazed Miah and Sheikh Hasina Wazed. His father was a nuclear scientist. In August 1975, his grandparents and uncles were assassinated during a military coup in Bangladesh; he and his mother, father and aunt survived as they were visiting West Germany.{{cite news |title=August 1975 and Sheikh Hasina's days in Europe |url=https://bangladeshpost.net/posts/august-1975-and-sheikh-hasina-s-days-in-europe-92367 |work=bangladeshpost.net |date=16 August 2022 |language=en |access-date=2 August 2024 |archive-date=2 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240802071305/https://bangladeshpost.net/posts/august-1975-and-sheikh-hasina-s-days-in-europe-92367 |url-status=live }} The family was barred by the military regime from entering the country until 1981. After returning to Bangladesh in 1981, his mother assumed the presidency of the Awami League and spearheaded the campaign for the restoration of democracy, along with her arch-rival Khaleda Zia. Wazed attended boarding school in India, including St. Joseph's College in Nainital and Kodaikanal International School in Palani Hills, Tamil Nadu.{{cite web | url=https://www.daily-sun.com/post/410738 | title=Sajeeb Wazed Joy's 49th birthday today | date=July 2019 | access-date=2 August 2024 | archive-date=2 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240802071156/https://www.daily-sun.com/post/410738 | url-status=live }} He studied computer science at the University of Bangalore; then transferred to The University of Texas at Arlington in the United States, where he graduated with a B.S. in computer engineering. Subsequently, Wazed attended Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, where he completed his Master of Public Administration.{{Cite news|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-the-time-delhi-gave-shelter-to-sheikh-hasina-2384549|title=The time Delhi gave shelter to Sheikh Hasina|date=2017-04-07|work=dna|language=en|access-date=2019-02-08|archive-date=9 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124323/https://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-the-time-delhi-gave-shelter-to-sheikh-hasina-2384549|url-status=live}}

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Wazed was settled in the United States for over two decades. He married Kristine Ann Overmire in 2002. They have a daughter. Their house is in Falls Church, Virginia. Since 2009, Wazed has divided his time between Bangladesh and the United States.{{cite news|url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/327094/sajeeb-wazed%E2%80%99s-photo-of-pm-hasina%E2%80%99s-birthday|work=Dhaka Tribune|date=4 October 2023|title=Sajeeb Wazed's viral photo shuts down rumors about his US status|access-date=2 August 2024|archive-date=4 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231004171008/https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/327094/sajeeb-wazed%E2%80%99s-photo-of-pm-hasina%E2%80%99s-birthday|url-status=live}}

Given the violent history of brutal assassination of Sheikh Mujib family in 1975,{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/08/23/archives/bangladesh-coup-a-day-of-killings.html | title=Bangladesh Coup: A Day of Killings | work=The New York Times | date=23 August 1975 | access-date=2 August 2024 | archive-date=2 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240802070303/https://www.nytimes.com/1975/08/23/archives/bangladesh-coup-a-day-of-killings.html | url-status=live }} and later attempts to assassinate Sheikh Hasina, which was 19 times in total,{{Cite news |url=http://www.tbsnews.net/supplement/life-haunted-assassins-all-along-308341 |title=A life haunted by assassins all along |date=2021-09-27 |newspaper=The Business Standard |language=en |access-date=2023-10-03 |archive-date=17 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417133315/https://www.tbsnews.net/supplement/life-haunted-assassins-all-along-308341 |url-status=live }} and very high security risk towards the immediate Mujib family members, in 2015 Sajeeb was given lifelong protection by the government of Bangladesh through the Special Security Force.{{cite news |last1=Report |first1=Star Online |title=Bangabandhu family to get more security, free utility, foreign treatment |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/country/bangabandhu-family-get-more-security-free-utility-foreign-treatment-87319 |work=The Daily Star |date=25 May 2015 |language=en |access-date=2 August 2024 |archive-date=18 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240518055841/https://www.thedailystar.net/country/bangabandhu-family-get-more-security-free-utility-foreign-treatment-87319 |url-status=live }}{{cite web | url=https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/19-facilities-for-Bangabandhu-family | title=19 privileges for Bangabandhu family | date=26 May 2015 | access-date=2 August 2024 | archive-date=2 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240802062657/https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/19-facilities-for-Bangabandhu-family | url-status=live }} The government also announced free utility for life for him and his family.{{cite news|url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/246958/cabinet-clears-ssf-bill-to-increase-security-for|title=Cabinet clears SSF Bill to increase security for Bangabandhu's family|work=Dhaka Tribune|date=17 May 2021}}{{Cite news |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/tighter-security-for-bangabandhu-family |title=Tighter security for Bangabandhu family |date=2015-05-26 |work=bdnews24.com |language=en |access-date=2017-01-19 |archive-date=2 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240802062656/https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/tighter-security-for-bangabandhu-family |url-status=live }} On 29 August 2024, the interim government decided to cancel this law.{{cite news |title=Draft to repeal security act for Bangabandhu's family members approved |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/draft-repeal-security-act-bangabandhus-family-members-approved-3689741 |work=The Daily Star |date=29 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240829153734/https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/draft-repeal-security-act-bangabandhus-family-members-approved-3689741 |archive-date=29 August 2024 |language=en}} Then on September 9, 2024, an ordinance was issued repealing this law.{{cite news |title=বঙ্গবন্ধু পরিবারের বিশেষ নিরাপত্তা আইন বাতিল করে অধ্যাদেশ জারি |url=https://dailyinqilab.com/national/news/685023 |work=Daily Inqilab |date=9 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240909164022/https://dailyinqilab.com/national/news/685023 |archive-date=9 September 2024 |language=bn}}{{cite news |title=Law providing special security to Bangabandhu's family abolished |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/357883/law-providing-special-security-to%C2%A0-bangabandhu%E2%80%99s |work=Dhaka Tribune |date=9 September 2024}} On 13 January 2025 in a part of a his facebook post,{{cite news |title=ক্রিস্টিনের সঙ্গে আমার তিন বছর আগে বিচ্ছেদ হয়েছে: জয় |url=https://www.ittefaq.com.bd/714764/%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%99%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%9B%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%9A%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9B%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A6-%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%9F%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9B%E0%A7%87 |access-date=14 January 2025 |work=The Daily Ittefaq |date=14 January 2025 |language=bn}} he said he and Kristine "are no longer married", and they had "separated almost three years ago and are divorced."{{cite news |title=বিচ্ছেদ হলো হাসিনা-পুত্র জয়ের |url=https://www.dailyjanakantha.com/national/news/762913|access-date=14 January 2025 |work=Daily Janakantha |date=14 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250114103622/https://www.dailyjanakantha.com/national/news/762913 |archive-date=14 January 2025 |language=bn}} He became a United States citizen in May 2025.{{cite news |title=Hasina's son Joy takes US citizenship |url=https://en.bd-pratidin.com/national/2025/05/12/36879 |access-date=14 May 2025 |work=Bangladesh Pratidin |date=12 May 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250514200811/https://en.bd-pratidin.com/national/2025/05/12/36879 |archive-date=14 May 2025 |language=en}}

Wazed is regarded as the mastermind of the Digital Bangladesh initiative and promoting the Vision 2021 manifesto of the Awami League. Wazed was listed by the World Economic Forum as one of its Young Global Leaders.{{cite news|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2007/01/19/d70119061775.htm|title=The Daily Star Web EditionVol. 5 Num 939|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2014-03-18|archive-date=2014-03-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318153759/http://archive.thedailystar.net/2007/01/19/d70119061775.htm|url-status=dead}} Wazed was also a lobbyist and columnist on behalf of the Bangladeshi government during the Hasina regime.

In 2007, a military-backed caretaker government headed by economist and civil servant Fakhruddin Ahmed grabbed power in the wake of the 2006-2008 political crisis, following the failure of the Iajuddin Ahmed-led caretaker government. The 'Minus Two' formula was put in place, not only to get rid of the former prime minister Khaleda Zia, but also Sajeeb Wazed's mother, the then Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina.{{cite news |date=18 January 2008 |title=Bangladesh: Ex-Premier's Trial Delayed |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/world/asia/18briefs-trial.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240802072741/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/world/asia/18briefs-trial.html |archive-date=2 August 2024 |access-date=2 August 2024 |work=The New York Times}} After his mother's arrest, he worked to secure her release.{{cite web |date=24 June 2024 |title=Sajeeb Wazed commends AL leaders and supporters, calls for unity in march for Smart Bangladesh |url=https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/politics/sajeeb-wazed-commends-al-leaders-and-supporters-calls-unity-march-smart}}

His formal involvement in the party made its way on 25 February 2010 as he became a primary member of the Rangpur (the ancestral home district of his late father) district unit of Awami League.[http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/print_news.php?nid=127938 The Daily Star] In addition, he joined as a voluntary and unpaid advisor to the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina.{{cite web |date=27 July 2024 |title=Tech-based economy is progressing under Joy's leadership: Quader |url=https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/tech-based-economy-progressing-under-joys-leadership-quader-904581}}

Wazed has pledged to transform Bangladesh's IT industry into the country's largest export sector, but critics say he has achieved little towards that end. Wazed has accused the Editor of The Daily Star, the country's largest circulated English daily, of sedition; and a pro-opposition journalist of attempted murder.{{cite web|url=http://thewire.in/2016/04/20/exclusive-us-court-dismissed-claim-of-plot-to-injure-bangladesh-pm-son-30447/|title=Exclusive: US Court Dismissed Claim of Plot to Injure Bangladesh PM Son|first=David|last=Bergman|work=The Wire|access-date=2016-04-22|archive-date=2016-04-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424232130/http://thewire.in/2016/04/20/exclusive-us-court-dismissed-claim-of-plot-to-injure-bangladesh-pm-son-30447/|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36063520|title=Senior Bangladesh editor Shafik Rehman is arrested|work=BBC News|access-date=21 June 2018|archive-date=19 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180719080244/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36063520|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://bdnews24.com/politics/joy-wants-daily-star-editor-detained-tried-for-treason-for-false-stories-against-hasina|title=Joy wants Daily Star editor detained, tried for treason for false stories against Hasina|work=bdnews24.com|access-date=2 August 2024|archive-date=2 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240802072044/https://bdnews24.com/politics/joy-wants-daily-star-editor-detained-tried-for-treason-for-false-stories-against-hasina|url-status=live}} Wazed has also had conflicts with Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus{{cite news|url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/14725/pm-us-pressured-joy-over-yunus-issue|work=Dhaka Tribune|date=18 February 2017|title=PM: US pressured Joy over Yunus issue}} and refused to publicly denounce Islamic extremists for the murder of Bangladeshi atheists,{{cite news |last1=Tharoor |first1=Ishaan |title=These Bangladeshi bloggers were murdered by Islamist extremists. Here are some of their writings |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/29/these-bangladeshi-bloggers-were-murdered-by-islamist-extremists-here-are-some-of-their-writings/ |newspaper=Washington Post |date=1 December 2021 |access-date=2 August 2024 |archive-date=20 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240620125736/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/29/these-bangladeshi-bloggers-were-murdered-by-islamist-extremists-here-are-some-of-their-writings/ |url-status=live }} in order to avoid alienating the country's conservative clergy, despite professing himself as a secularist.{{cite news | url=https://bdnews24.com/politics/massive-yunus-fraud-sajeeb | title=Massive Yunus fraud: Sajeeb | work=bdnews24.com | date=6 March 2011 | access-date=2 August 2024 | archive-date=2 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240802072043/https://bdnews24.com/politics/massive-yunus-fraud-sajeeb | url-status=live }}

After the fall of Sheikh Hasina, Wazed told BBC that his mother would not return to politics.{{Cite web |date=2024-08-05 |title=My mother will not return to politics: Sajeeb Wazed Joy |url=https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/no-return-politics-hasina-sajeeb-wazed-joy-910181 |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=The Business Standard |language=en}} He later backtracked on that statement and told Reuters that she had not gotten the time to properly resign and that the formation of the interim government could be legally challenged.{{Cite web |date=2024-08-14 |title=The shifting narratives of Sajeeb Wazed Joy |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/the-shifting-narratives-sajeeb-wazed-joy-3676931 |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}} Wazed later asked India to ensure that fresh elections are held within 90 days.{{Cite web |title=Joy urges India to ensure elections within 90 days in Bangladesh |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/354687/joy-urges-india-to-ensure-elections-within-90-days |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=Dhaka Tribune |language=en}} In a video posted on his verified Facebook page, Wazed also called on supporters to pay homage to his grandfather, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, on August 15, the anniversary of his assassination.{{Cite web |title=Sajeeb urges people to pay homage to Sheikh Mujib on August 15 |url=https://www.newagebd.net/post/Politics/242381/sajeeb-urges-people-to-pay-homage-to-sheikh-mujib-on-august-15 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250116094232/https://www.newagebd.net/post/Politics/242381/sajeeb-urges-people-to-pay-homage-to-sheikh-mujib-on-august-15 |archive-date=2025-01-16 |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=www.newagebd.net |language=en}} He also criticised the burning down of Sheikh Mujib's historic residence.

Wazed first appeared on the Bangladeshi political scene in 2004, when he made a widely publicized visit to Bangladesh. On 25 February 2009, Wazed officially joined the Awami League as a primary member of the Rangpur district unit of the party. Rangpur is the ancestral home district of his father Wazed Miah and his potential parliamentary constituency.{{cite news|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/print_news.php?nid=127938nid=127938|title=Joy joins politics|work=The Daily Star|date=26 February 2010|access-date=4 May 2017|archive-date=8 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708192043/http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/print_news.php?nid=127938nid=127938|url-status=live}}

After the Awami League returned to power in 2009 with Sheikh Hasina as prime minister for a second time, he made his first public statements after the BDR Mutiny, praising his mother's handling of the crisis. "This is probably the biggest incident Bangladesh has had since 1975 and our government and the prime minister has handled this compassionately, pragmatically but decisively to bring the situation under control" he said in an interview to the BBC.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7916158.stm|title=South Asia - Bangladesh army backs government|work=BBC News|date=27 February 2009|access-date=19 December 2009|archive-date=2 March 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302105301/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7916158.stm|url-status=live}}

{{Update section|date=January 2025}}

In December 2024, the Anti-Corruption Commission of Bangladesh opened an investigation against Sheikh Hasina, Sajeeb Wazed Joy, and Hasina's niece, Tulip Siddiq, who is an MP and cabinet minister in the United Kingdom, over allegations of embezzlement of $5 Billion in funds for the construction of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant using offshore accounts in Malaysia. He is also being sued by the ACC for illegally grabbing Purbachal plots by abuse of power.{{Cite web |date=2025-01-14 |title=ACC sues Hasina, Joy for grabbing Purbachal plots through 'abuse of power' |url=https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/corruption/acc-sues-hasina-joy-grabbing-purbachal-plots-through-abuse-power-1042611 |access-date=2025-02-17 |website=The Business Standard |language=en}} On October 1, 2024, The BFIU froze Sajeeb's bank accounts in Bangladesh.{{Cite news |title=Bank accounts of Joy, Putul, Radwan frozen |url=https://www.jagonews24.com/en/politics/news/77271 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250211030134/https://www.jagonews24.com/en/politics/news/77271 |archive-date=2025-02-11 |access-date=2025-02-17 |work=Jago News 24 |language=en-US}} He, Palak and the others were sued for embezzling around Tk 20,000 crore through the sale of the National Identification Card data both home and abroad of more than 11 crore citizen by abuse of power.{{Cite web |date=2024-10-10 |title=Joy, Palak sued for selling NID information |url=https://thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/crime-justice/news/joy-palak-sued-selling-nid-information-3723621 |access-date=2025-02-17 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}

In April 2016, a write-up by David Bergman in the Indian website The Wire said that a "Suspicious Activity Report" (SAR) covering a transaction of US$300 million recorded in a memo of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was linked to Wazed. But the court documents did not provide any further information about the reference to ‘US$300 million’.

In 2011, Wazed talked and criticised Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus for his leadership of Grameen Bank, claiming high levels of "fraud and impropriety" in the use of Norwegian government funds at the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization.{{cite news |title=Joy's 'letter' tells it all |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-177004 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801035744/http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-177004 |archive-date=1 August 2017 |access-date=22 April 2016 |work=The Daily Star}} He claims, The government of Norway raised this as a major concern and as a compromise US$30 million was returned. The remaining approximately US$70 million was never returned. All correspondence in this regard was from Yunus himself. A spokesman for the foreign ministry in Oslo said about this issue, it was agreed in 1998 that the bank should return money wrongly transferred from the Grameen Bank to Grameen Kalyan - another part of more than 30 companies headed by Muhammad Yunus that make up the Grameen group of companies.{{Cite web |title=eBangladesh |url=http://www.ebangladesh.com/2970 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708192150/http://www.ebangladesh.com/2970 |archive-date=8 July 2018 |access-date=4 May 2017}} The government of Norway had been thoroughly investigated and that it considered it to be closed.{{cite news |title=Grameen: Norway gives all-clear to Bangladesh bank |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-11947902 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180719074736/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-11947902 |archive-date=19 July 2018 |access-date=21 June 2018 |work=BBC News}}

In 2015, Wazed defended the Awami League government's refusal to publicly condemn the murder of bloggers and publishers by Islamic extremists. He opined that the government was walking a fine line to avoid alienating the country's deeply conservative clergy.{{cite news |title=Not believing in God is dangerous for bloggers in Bangladesh |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32703432/not-believing-in-god-is-dangerous-for-bloggers-in-bangladesh |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160515233019/http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32703432/not-believing-in-god-is-dangerous-for-bloggers-in-bangladesh |archive-date=15 May 2016 |access-date=22 April 2016 |work=BBC News}} His comments were described by Nick Cohen in The Guardian as "pathetic";{{cite news |last=Cohen |first=Nick |title=Islamism prevails even as we suppress free speech |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/04/islamism-prevails-we-suppress-free-speech-bangladeshi-blogger |work=The Guardian}} while Trisha Ahmed, the stepdaughter of slain Avijit Roy, responded that "Bangladesh is powerless; it's corrupt, there is no law and order, and I highly doubt that any justice will come to the murderers."

In 2016, Wazed accused Mahfuz Anam, editor and publisher of The Daily Star, of treason and demanded his imprisonment for publishing reports in 2007 on the basis of intelligence sources, accusing his mother Sheikh Hasina of corruption. The BBC has reported that the Bangladeshi government has been seeking to curtail the finances of the influential newspaper.{{cite news |title='Attempt to crush independent media' in Bangladesh |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35594968 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827161839/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35594968 |archive-date=27 August 2022 |access-date=21 June 2018 |work=BBC News}} Later on Mahfuz Anam has admitted to his 'biggest mistake' in journalism, saying it was wrong of him to run corruption stories against Sheikh Hasina during the 2007-8 military-controlled caretaker regime.{{cite news |title=Daily Star Editor Mahfuz Anam admits to publishing DGFI-fed baseless stories |url=http://bdnews24.com/media-en/2016/02/04/daily-star-editor-mahfuz-anam-admits-to-publishing-dgfi-fed-baseless-stories |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405224816/http://bdnews24.com/media-en/2016/02/04/daily-star-editor-mahfuz-anam-admits-to-publishing-dgfi-fed-baseless-stories |archive-date=5 April 2016 |access-date=4 May 2017 |work=bdnews24.com}}

Three United Nations rapporteurs in a joint letter on December 22, 2022, accused Sajeeb Wazed of sharing misinformation against them while they pointed out gross human rights abuse in Bangladesh under the Sheikh Hasina regime. The letter, signed by Aua Baldé, the Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances; Clément Nyaletsossi Voule, the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; and Mary Lawlor Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, read:

"By bringing into question the authenticity of the submitted claims about enforced disappearances, the media has reportedly accused Odhikar of wrongly influencing the WGEID’s reports and action [...] the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed, Advisor to the Prime Minister on Information and Communication Technology, has used his verified Facebook account to challenge the credibility and integrity of the WGEID."{{cite news |title=Letter to Bangladesh (AL BGD 4/2022) |url=https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=27745 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230304180700/https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=27745 |archive-date=4 March 2023 |access-date=4 March 2023 |work=UN OHCHR}}

Previously, in June 2022, the Agence France-Presse Fact Check team, found him sharing misinformation on President Ziaur Rahman by misquoting a former president's book.{{cite news |title=Posts share false quote from former Bangladesh president's autobiography about his successor |url=https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.32BQ6LL |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230304180659/https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.32BQ6LL |archive-date=4 March 2023 |access-date=4 March 2023 |work=AFP Fact Check}}

According to Fairfax County, Virginia public records, Wazed is the president of Wazed Consulting Inc.{{cite news |date=19 March 2011 |title=The mystique of PM's son |url=http://opinion.bdnews24.com/2011/03/19/the-mystique-of-pm%E2%80%99s-son/ |work=bdnews24.com |type=Opinion |access-date=2 November 2014 |archive-date=2 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102201544/http://opinion.bdnews24.com/2011/03/19/the-mystique-of-pm%E2%80%99s-son/ |url-status=live }}

• ICT for Development Award, (2016) {{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/politics/joy-receives-ict-development-award-1286815|title=Joy receives 'ICT for Development Award'|work=The Daily Star|date=20 September 2016|access-date=15 January 2017|archive-date=16 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116162837/http://www.thedailystar.net/politics/joy-receives-ict-development-award-1286815|url-status=live}}
• Young Global Leader, (2007){{cite news |url=https://bdnews24.com/politics/sajeeb-in-top-250-young-global-leaders-league |title=Sajeeb in top 250 young global leaders' league |work=bdnews24.com |date=20 September 2016 |access-date=3 August 2024 |archive-date=3 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240803202550/https://bdnews24.com/politics/sajeeb-in-top-250-young-global-leaders-league |url-status=live }}

• Tarique Rahman
• Suchinta Foundation

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