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Hasina passport request raises suspicion of planned political comeback
BANGLADESH’S former prime minister Sheikh Hasina requested a new passport today, claiming she needs it to return to the country next month. Bangladeshi authorities said they would look into the reques
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Bangladeshi authorities said they would look into the request, though they reiterated last week that they are already demanding Ms Hasina be extradited from India into their custody. She has been living in exile since fleeing a mass uprising in 2024 and has been sentenced to death in abstentia over the repression of protests at that time, in which over 1,400 people were killed.
Ms Hasina has been suspected of planning a political comeback since August when she and her son held a New Delhi press conference, in which she announced her determination to return and he said Bangladesh risked becoming “another Pakistan” harbouring terrorist threats to India, a seeming bid for support from the Narendra Modi government.
Her Awami League has been banned in Bangladesh. The new regime has been accused by trade unions of cracking down on workers organising as well as independent journalism, and by human rights groups of purging academics in supposed crackdowns on Hasina loyalists.
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