Last month, on the completion of 100 days of Bangladesh’s interim government, Chief Advisor Mohammad Yunus had said that he would demand Hasina’s extradition. Yunus said about 1,500 people, including students, were killed while 19,931 were injured during the protests against Hasina’s government.
Bangladesh’s interim government on Monday said it has sent a diplomatic message to India to send ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina back to Dhaka. Tauheed Hussain, foreign minister in the interim government, said that we have sent a diplomatic message to the Indian government, asking that Hasina be sent back to Dhaka for judicial process in Bangladesh.
Sheikh Hasina (77) has been living in exile in India since August 5. She resigned as Prime Minister amid student-led protests and left the country for India. With this, his rule that continued for 16 consecutive years came to an end. The Dhaka-based International Criminal Tribunal (ICT) has issued arrest warrants against Hasina and her cabinet ministers, advisors and military and administrative officials for ‘crimes against humanity and genocide’.
“We have sent a diplomatic message to the Indian government asking that she (Hasina) be sent back to Dhaka for judicial process in Bangladesh,” Tauheed Hussain, foreign minister in Bangladesh’s interim government, told reporters at his office. Earlier in the day, Home Ministry advisor Jahangir Alam said his office has sent a letter to the External Affairs Ministry for the extradition of ousted Prime Minister Hasina from India.
Jahangir Alam told reporters in response to a question, “We have sent a letter to the Ministry of External Affairs regarding her (Sheikh Hasina) extradition.” The process is still going on.” Alam said that an extradition treaty already exists between Dhaka and New Delhi and under this treaty Hasina can be brought back to Bangladesh.
Last month, in his address to the nation on the completion of 100 days of Bangladesh’s interim government, Chief Advisor Mohammad Yunus had said that he would demand Hasina’s extradition. He had said, “We must ensure justice in every murder case… We will ask India to send back Sheikh Hasina.” Yunus, who took office in August, has claimed that protests against Hasina government About 1,500 people, including students and civilians, were killed during the protests, while 19,931 others were injured.
In October, legal advisor Asif Nazrul had reportedly said that if India tried to reject Sheikh Hasina’s extradition by citing any provision of the treaty, Bangladesh would strongly oppose it. In recent weeks, Hasina has accused the Yunus-led interim government of carrying out “genocide” and failing to protect minorities, especially Hindus.
