F ormer Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina requested a new passport on Monday (November 9, 2026) to facilitate her r eturn from exile two years after she was ousted in a mass uprising.
Ms. It was not immediately possible to obtain comment from the Bangladesh government. Hasina to be handed over under an extradition treaty with India. India has declined to hand her over. Ms. Hasina denies any wrongdoing. She also has rejected the tribunal’s verdict and challenged the legitimacy of the trial. An interim government led Bangladesh after Ms. Hasina’s ouster and held an election in February that Hasina’s Awami League party was barred from contesting.
On Thursday (November 5, 2026), Junior Minister for Foreign Affairs Humaiun Kobir said Bangladesh wants Ms. The United Nations has said nearly 1,400 people were killed. Earlier reporting noted: Sheikh Hasina seeks new passport, ID card to return to Bangladesh after 2 years of exile in India Ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina requested on Monday a new passport and identity card so she can return from self-imposed exile in India, according to a letter seen by Reuters, her first such communication since fleeing in 2024.
Hasina told The Associated Press in an interview this month that she would return to Bangladesh in December at any cost. “She is determined to return to Bangladesh by December, and she will undoubtedly return home,” he said. Earlier reporting noted: “In view of the reported revocation of her existing Bangladeshi passport and National Identity Card (NID) by the Interim Government and other authorities, I respectfully request that you take the necessary steps to issue a new Bangladeshi passport and National Identity Card for our client,” Hasina’s lawyers at London-based Matrix Chambers wrote to Preeti Rahman, acting high commissioner at Bangladesh’s embassy in Delhi.
The government has been seeking her extradition from India and earlier dismissed suggestions she needed new identification documents to return home. Bangladesh ‘s war-crimes court sentenced her to death in November last year in her absence for ordering a deadly crackdown on the student-led uprising, though she has denied the charges from exile. Earlier reporting noted: She has told Reuters she plans to return to surrender before a court, and her aides said on Monday the date would be announced once various formalities were completed.
