“We welcome her announcement as we want to ensure justice,” Zahed Ur Rahman said, according to local media.
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Bangladesh on Tuesday “welcomed” its former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent announcement of her possible return home, local media reported.
Addressing a briefing, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Tariq Rahman’s adviser for information and strategy, Zahed Ur Rahman, said that Hasina, who has been awarded the death penalty by a Bangladeshi court, must return home to face justice.
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“We welcome her announcement as we want to ensure justice,” Zahed Ur Rahman said, according to local media.
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He further added that the “people of the country want her death penalty to be upheld for the crimes she committed, and in that case her capital punishment will be executed as the people want to see that.”
“Let her bring the best lawyers in the world,” he said.
The remarks from the top-ranking Bangladeshi official come days after Hasina, in an interview with a news channel, declared that, “I’ll be back home this year.”
The former Bangladeshi PM was forced to flee the country in 2024 following a student-led uprising against her government. She has been living in India since then.
Hasina said her return to Bangladesh is not a question of personal ambition, but is tied to a far larger purpose — the political rights of the people of Bangladesh, the restoration of democracy, the rule of law, and the spirit of the Liberation War.
“I do not do politics for power. I do politics for the welfare of the people of Bangladesh and for the fulfilment of the dream of the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, to build a Sonar Bangla,” Hasina told NDTV.
She said that the death penalty awarded to her in Bangladesh is the result of an “illegal, unconstitutional, and politically motivated process.”
On the prospects of her party upon her likely return to Bangladesh, Hasina said that the Awami League is not a paper organisation but a political force rooted in the soil of Bengal, in the people of Bengal, in the history of Bengal, and in the identity of the Bengali nation.
Hasina demanded that the Tarique Rahman-led BNP government in Bangladesh restore a “proper democratic environment” in the country and withdraw the “illegal ban” on the Awami League.
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