Dhaka says New Delhi has an ‘compulsory accountability’ handy over the previous chief, who was not too long ago sentenced to demise for final 12 months’s lethal crackdown on student-led rebellion.
Printed On 23 Nov 2025
Bangladesh has once more requested India to extradite former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was not too long ago sentenced to death in absentia over final 12 months’s lethal crackdown in opposition to a student-led rebellion.
Touhid Hossain, who holds the international affairs portfolio in Bangladesh’s interim administration, on Sunday stated Dhaka had despatched a letter two days in the past, urging New Delhi handy over the fugitive ex-leader.
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Hasina, 78, has been in hiding in India – her shut ally when she was the prime minister of Bangladesh for 15 years, till her autocratic rule was overthrown in a mass rebellion in August 2024, by which greater than 1,400 individuals had been killed, in response to the United Nations.
On Monday, a particular Worldwide Crimes Tribunal (ICT) in Dhaka convicted Hasina of crimes against humanity and sentenced her to demise, fulfilling a key pledge by the interim authorities, led by Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus.
Following the court docket ruling, Bangladesh’s International Ministry stated in an announcement that India had an “compulsory accountability” beneath a bilateral extradition treaty signed in 2013 to facilitate the previous chief’s return.
The ministry stated holding Hasina is a “grave act of unfriendly behaviour”, and known as it “a travesty of justice for some other nation to grant asylum to those people convicted of crimes in opposition to humanity”.
India’s International Ministry responded by saying it had “famous” the Hasina verdict. However India has to this point not commented on the prospects of her extradition. Bangladeshi newspaper Prothom Alo says Dhaka has made at the very least three such extradition requests to this point.
India’s previous help for Hasina has frayed relations between the 2 South Asian neighbours since her overthrow.
However tensions seem to have eased barely this week after Bangladesh’s Nationwide Safety Adviser Khalilur Rahman visited India for a regional safety summit, the place he additionally met his Indian counterpart, Ajit Doval.
Media studies in Bangladesh stated Rahman has invited Doval for a go to.
Bangladesh will maintain its first normal elections for the reason that protests in February. Hasina’s occasion, the Awami League, is barred from any political exercise.
