Two years after a student uprising ended her fifteen-year rule and left nearly 1,400 people dead in its wake, former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has declared from Indian exile that she will return home in December — knowingly, willingly, into the arms of a death sentence. Her announcement, timed to the anniversary of the revolution that removed her, is less a legal calculation than a moral claim: that duty to one's people cannot be silenced by the threat of punishment. Meanwhile, the government she once led has transformed her former residence into a museum of the movement that br
Ousted Bangladesh PM vows to return from exile despite death sentence
Nearly 1,400 people were killed during the 2024 crackdown on protesters that led to Hasina's ouster and conviction for crimes against humanity.