Exiled Bangladesh leader says she’ll return despite threats

Hasina, 78, has lived in exile in India since fleeing Bangladesh in 2024 after a student-led uprising ended her 15-year rule.

Sheikh Hasina, 78, plans a December comeback two years after being ousted in a bloody uprising led by students Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina has vowed to return home by year-end, even though she faces a death sentence. “They may put me in a cell. They may kill me. Anything may happen, but still I hav

The 78-year-old fled to India in August 2024 by helicopter at the height of the student-led uprising that toppled her government.

Bangladesh’s ousted leader Sheikh Hasina vowed to return to her country despite facing a death sentence, calling it her “duty” to help rescue a country she described as sliding into economic distress and democratic decline.