Hasina seeks a passport to return to Bangladesh as Dhaka warns of execution
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Sheikh Hasina, 79, asked Bangladesh's High Commission in New Delhi for a passport to return next month, more than two years after fleeing to India when a 2024 uprising ousted her. Dhaka rejected the request. She was sentenced to death in absentia over crackdowns on student-led protests that killed more than 1,400 people; prosecutor Md Aminul Islam said she would be executed if she returned, and State Minister for Foreign Affairs Humaiun Kobir said Bangladesh will not issue passports to fugitives it calls terrorists.
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