Sheikh Hasina requested travel documents ahead of a planned December return from India even as Dhaka seeks her extradition, says Reuters

Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has formally requested a new passport and identity card to facilitate her return from India next month, despite facing a death sentence at home, Reuters reported on Monday.

Her lawyers at the London-based Matrix Chambers wrote to the acting high commissioner at Bangladesh’s mission in New Delhi, Preeti Rahman, seeking replacement documents after her existing passport and identity card were reportedly revoked by the previous interim government in Dhaka.

Hasina was ousted following protests in August, 2024, ending her 15-year rule and forcing her to flee to India. A United Nations report estimated that as many as 1,400 people were killed during her government’s crackdown on the protests.…