‘Let her bring the best lawyers’: Bangladesh ‘welcomes’ Hasina’s possible return, says she must face justice
"We welcome her announcement as we want to ensure justice," Zahed Ur Rahman said, according to local media.
"We welcome her announcement as we want to ensure justice," Zahed Ur Rahman said, according to local media.
Sheikh Hasina said there has been no communication with the authorities in Dhaka over her proposed return. The tribunal also ordered the confiscation of her properties and sentenced former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to death while awarding a five-year jail term to former police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun.
Hasina said that the death penalty awarded to her in Bangladesh is a result of an "illegal, unconstitutional, and politically motivated process."
The party warned that the international community's silence on the matter might push Bangladesh further into brutality and prolonged political violence.
Bangladesh’s tryst with elections slated for Thursday is not merely a test for the South Asian nation’s democratic will, but also a test of how things will evolve on the larger South Asian canvas.
The Mohammad Yunus-led interim government in Bangladesh has banned the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League from participating in the elections.
In an exclusive interview to the United News of India, Prof AK Abdul Momen, who served as Bangladesh’s foreign minister from 2019-2024, said that the Bangladesh-Pakistan-China axis building up could prove deeply destabilising, not just for Dhaka, but for the wider South and South East Asia
Her political career was moulded by military rule, mass movements, electoral politics and prolonged legal and political standoffs
Former Bangladesh Minister and Awami League leader Mohammad Ali Arafat on Tuesday slammed the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government, asserting that a government backed by Islamist extremists would never understand the party’s relationship with India.
The Indian government’s message to Dhaka, following the latest judgment, appears unmistakable: “You may place any demand you wish, but India will take its own decisions in its own way.”
