Bangladesh prosecutor says Sheikh Hasina faces execution if she comes home

Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will face execution if she returns home, the prosecutor who won her death sentence said on 10 November. She has been living in India since she was ousted in August 2024.

“Sheikh Hasina has no option but to face the execution of the verdict,” Md Aminul Islam, the prosecutor at Dhaka’s International Crimes Tribunal, told reporters, The Hindu reported.

He was responding to reports that Ms. Hasina plans to return. Exiled members of her Awami League say she is confident of going back in December, The Guardian reported.

The passport request

Ms. Hasina has asked the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi for a new passport and national identity card, because her old documents were revoked, Al Jazeera reported. Her letter asked that the request be dealt with quickly.

Dhaka has dismissed the request. Minister Humayun Kabir called her a “terrorist”, and said Bangladesh would use its extradition arrangements with India to get her handed over, according to The Hindu and Al Jazeera.

India’s Ministry of External Affairs declined to comment on the passport request, Hindustan Times reported. New Delhi has said in the past that it is examining Dhaka’s requests for her extradition.

The background

The tribunal sentenced Ms. Hasina to death in her absence in November 2025 over the crackdown on the student-led uprising of 2024. The United Nations says about 1,400 people were killed in those protests. Her party says the trial was political.

It was not clear when, or whether, the High Commission would rule on her request.