Overview
- Foreign affairs adviser Touhid Hossain said a new note verbale was sent Friday via the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi seeking Hasina’s return after her November 17 conviction.
- Reports in Dhaka describe this as the second or third formal request since Hasina fled in August 2024, with an earlier note confirmed in December 2024.
- India’s Ministry of External Affairs has said it has “noted” the verdict, and the 2013 extradition treaty allows refusals for offences deemed political or where capital punishment is involved.
- Hasina, 78, was sentenced to death in absentia for crimes against humanity during the 2024 crackdown; former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal received the same sentence and ex–police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al‑Mamun got five years as a state witness.
- The tribunal has scheduled another hearing on alleged enforced disappearances, and bilateral contacts continue after Bangladesh’s security adviser met India’s Ajit Doval in New Delhi.