In a recent interview with Reuters, Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced that she and senior party colleagues plan to return from India to Bangladesh around December.
Hasina’s Awami League (AL) government was ousted from power on August 5, 2024, following weeks of mass protests. Soon after her resignation, she fled Bangladesh for India and has been living there since then.
Hasina was tried in absentia by Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal over the deadly crackdown during the July-August 2024 protests. In November 2025, she was convicted of crimes against humanity under the doctrine of superior command responsibility and sentenced to death. She has rejected the verdict as politically motivated and denied all charges.
Hasina told Reuters that she would surrender before a court despite already being sentenced to death in absentia.
Rumors of her return to Bangladesh have been circulating for several months. This is the first time that Hasina has publicly committed to returning to Bangladesh, giving a timeframe.
