Bangladesh Requests India's Extradition of Ex-PM Hasina Post-Death Sentence

Bangladesh's interim government has formally requested India to extradite former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, days after a tribunal sentenced her to death for her role in a deadly crackdown on student protests that toppled her administration last year.

The request, announced on Sunday, marks the third such appeal since Hasina fled to India following mass demonstrations in August 2024. Touhid Hossain, the foreign affairs adviser in the interim administration led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, confirmed that the letter was sent on Friday. He provided no further details on its contents. The move comes after the International Crimes Tribunal in Dhaka convicted Hasina, 78, in absentia on Monday of crimes against humanity, sentencing her to hang for ordering security forces to suppress the uprising. The tribunal also issued a death sentence to former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, who is also in India, while former police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun received a five-year prison term after testifying as a state witness.

The protests, known as the July Uprising, began as a student-led movement against job quotas but escalated into widespread unrest against Hasina's...