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Bangladesh’s ousted leader Sheikh Hasina appeals for a new passport to return from exile

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Bangladesh’s ousted leader Sheikh Hasina appeals for a new passport to return from exile

DHAKA, Bangladesh Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina requested a new passport on Monday (November 9, 2026) to facilitate her return from exile two years after she was ousted in a mass uprising. Bangladesh Law Minister calls Hasina ‘convicted criminal’, says extradition request sent to India storyline 1 Hasina says she will return from exile in December ‘at any cost’ storyline 1 The government has been seeking her extradition from India and earlier dismissed suggestions she needed new identification documents to return home. Ms.

Hasina told The Associated Press in an interview this month that she would return to Bangladesh in December at any cost. ‘How can my press conference damage India-Bangladesh relations? I am not so powerful,’ says Sheikh Hasina ‘How can my press conference damage India-Bangladesh relations?

I am not so powerful,’ says Sheikh Hasina In an interview with The Hindu, Bangladesh’s former PM invokes the right to free speech and meeting party colleagues during her exile in India ‘How can my press conference damage India-Bangladesh relations?