Sheikh Hasina requested travel documents ahead of a planned December return from India even as Dhaka seeks her extradition, says Reuters
Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has formally requested a new passport and identity card to facilitate her return from India next month, despite facing a death sentence at home, Reuters reported on Monday.
Her lawyers at the London-based Matrix Chambers wrote to the acting high commissioner at Bangladesh’s mission in New Delhi, Preeti Rahman, seeking replacement documents after her existing passport and identity card were reportedly revoked by the previous interim government in Dhaka.
Hasina was ousted following protests in August, 2024, ending her 15-year rule and forcing her to flee to India. A United Nations report estimated that as many as 1,400 people were killed during her government’s crackdown on the protests. She was sentenced to death in absentia by Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal last November.
Her lawyers have sought expedited processing, citing her Bangladeshi citizenship and international human rights obligations.
Her continued stay in India has strained relations between New Delhi and Dhaka. Bangladesh has insisted that Hasina should be extradited. Bangladeshi Deputy Foreign Minister Humaiun Kobir, however, dismissed the idea of providing her a passport last Thursday.
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