Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Wednesday that the ban on her Awami League party should be lifted. Hasina made the comments during a media interaction hosted by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia in New Delhi, on the second anniversary of her ouster in 2024.
Return to Bangladesh
Hasina, 78, told Reuters in an interview last month that she plans to return to her country by the end of the year and surrender to authorities there. She had been expected to address the event virtually by video but delivered only an audio message.
Hasina said, “I will return to my people,” adding that she would share the exact date of her return and other details when the time was right. The country’s war-crimes court sentenced her to death in her absence in November 2025 for ordering a deadly crackdown on the student-led uprising. She has denied the charges from exile.
Bangladesh’s new government of Prime Minister Tarique Rahman warned the country’s media on Tuesday not to publish her statements, saying that doing so would violate a 2024 court order that prohibits the publishing or broadcasting of her speeches and statements.
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