Dhaka says New Delhi has an ‘compulsory duty’ at hand over the previous chief, who was lately sentenced to loss of life for final yr’s lethal crackdown on student-led rebellion.
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Bangladesh has once more requested India to extradite former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was lately sentenced to death in absentia over final yr’s lethal crackdown towards a student-led rebellion.
Touhid Hossain, who holds the international affairs portfolio in Bangladesh’s interim administration, on Sunday stated Dhaka had despatched a letter two days in the past, urging New Delhi at hand over the fugitive ex-leader.
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Hasina, 78, has been in hiding in India – her shut ally when she was the prime minister of Bangladesh for 15 years, till her autocratic rule was overthrown in a mass rebellion in August 2024, through which greater than 1,400 folks have been killed, based on the United Nations.
On Monday, a particular Worldwide Crimes Tribunal (ICT) in Dhaka convicted Hasina of crimes against humanity and sentenced her to loss of life, fulfilling a key pledge by the interim authorities, led by Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus.
Following the courtroom ruling, Bangladesh’s Overseas Ministry stated in an announcement that India had an “compulsory duty” underneath a bilateral extradition treaty signed in 2013 to facilitate the previous chief’s return.
The ministry stated maintaining Hasina is a “grave act of unfriendly behaviour”, and known as it “a travesty of justice for another nation to grant asylum to those people convicted of crimes towards humanity”.
India’s Overseas Ministry responded by saying it had “famous” the Hasina verdict. However India has thus far not commented on the prospects of her extradition. Bangladeshi newspaper Prothom Alo says Dhaka has made at the least three such extradition requests thus far.
India’s previous help for Hasina has frayed relations between the 2 South Asian neighbours since her overthrow.
However tensions seem to have eased barely this week after Bangladesh’s Nationwide Safety Adviser Khalilur Rahman visited India for a regional safety summit, the place he additionally met his Indian counterpart, Ajit Doval.
Media stories in Bangladesh stated Rahman has invited Doval for a go to.
Bangladesh will maintain its first normal elections because the protests in February. Hasina’s celebration, the Awami League, is barred from any political exercise.
