NEW DELHI: Ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, facing a death sentence back home where her party is banned, told Reuters she and senior party colleagues plan to return from exile in India around December and surrender. The South Asian nation’s longest-serving leader said she and members of her Awami League aim to return voluntarily to the country they fled two years ago and present themselves in court, testing Bangladesh’s handling of its most prominent political opponent.

Bangladesh's former prime minister Sheikh Hasina has said she and other exiled leaders of the Awami League plan to return to Bangladesh voluntarily around December, despite the…

“They may arrest me on my return, they may even kill me,” Hasina, 78, said she and senior Awami League leaders plan to return from exile in India despite facing a death sentence