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decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Federica-Marsi-author-profile.jpg?resize=96%2C96&amp;quality=80\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"byline-content\">\n<div class=\"contributors-list contributors-list--byline\"><span class=\"contributors-list__by-prefix\">By <\/span><a href=\"\/author\/federica_marsi_150805112224062\">Federica Marsi<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-dates\">\n<div class=\"date-simple\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 5 Aug 2026<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">5 Aug 2026<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg--all-content\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p>Former Bangladesh Prime Minister <a href=\"\/news\/2026\/7\/10\/condemned-ex-pm-hasina-plans-december-return-to-bangladesh\">Sheikh Hasina<\/a>, who was dramatically ousted following a brutal crackdown on protesters in 2024 and fled to India, is expected to make a rare public appearance after two years in exile in New Delhi on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Two years after the events of the summer of 2024, which saw an uprising by young people protesting against a reservation system for government jobs turn violent, the 78-year-old is due to appear via videolink at an event hosted by the Foreign Correspondents\u2019 Club (FCC) of South \u200cAsia, alongside her son, Sajeeb Wazed Joy, and other Awami League leaders, including former Education Minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Nowfel.<\/p>\n<section class=\"more-on\">\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories<!-- --> <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 3 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"more-on__list\">\n<li class=\"more-on__article\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list 1 of 3<\/span><a class=\"more-on__link\" href=\"\/news\/2026\/7\/7\/bangladesh-landslides-kill-nine-including-eight-rohingya-in-refugee-camp\">Bangladesh landslides kill nine, including eight Rohingya in refugee camp<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"more-on__article\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list 2 of 3<\/span><a class=\"more-on__link\" href=\"\/video\/newsfeed\/2026\/7\/9\/eight-killed-as-landslide-hits-rohingya-school-in-bangladesh\">Eight killed as landslide hits Rohingya school in Bangladesh<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"more-on__article\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list 3 of 3<\/span><a class=\"more-on__link\" href=\"\/news\/2026\/7\/10\/condemned-ex-pm-hasina-plans-december-return-to-bangladesh\">Condemned ex-PM Hasina plans December return to Bangladesh<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>Dhaka continues to seek Hasina\u2019s extradition from India following last year\u2019s death sentence passed against her in absentia for ordering forces to fire on protesters.<\/p>\n<p>New Delhi, which has allowed her to remain and resisted attempts to extradite her to Bangladesh, has denied any role in planning the virtual speech, saying the event has been organised by a private media organisation.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Bangladeshi authorities banned local media from airing her speech. Hasina\u2019s aide, Abu Obaidha Arin, slammed the move, saying Dhaka\u2019s \u201cefforts to silence dissent cannot extinguish voices\u201d beyond the country\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"why-is-sheikh-hasina-in-exile\">Why is Sheikh Hasina in exile?<\/h2>\n<p>Hasina has been living in self-imposed exile in New Delhi since student-led \u2060protests toppled her Awami League government in August 2024. A caretaker government took over after she fled, before <a href=\"\/news\/2026\/2\/13\/bangladesh-election-results-2026-who-won-who-lost-whats-next\">elections<\/a> were held earlier this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"container--ads in-article-ads\">\n<div class=\"ads\"><span class=\"ads__title\"> Advertisement <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>She was accused of ordering security forces to crack down brutally on protesters, including telling officers to \u201c<a href=\"\/news\/2025\/7\/24\/shoot-them-sheikh-hasina-ordered-firing-on-bangladesh-protesters-in-2024\">shoot them<\/a>\u201c, and was <a href=\"\/news\/2025\/11\/19\/families-of-bangladesh-protest-victims-want-hasina-brought-back-hanged\">sentenced to death<\/a> in absentia in 2025 for crimes against humanity, a verdict she has dismissed as \u201clegally void\u201d. An estimated 1,400 people were killed during the crackdown, and more than 20,000 were injured.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh\u2019s interim government had called for the death penalty in relation to that, as well as for 1,500 cases of enforced disappearances during her 17-year rule, according to an official inquiry. Many of those detained were political rivals from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4830742\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4830742\" style=\"width:770px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-4830742\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP24218558754792-1785921162.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513&amp;quality=80\" alt=\"Activists clash with the police during a march in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Tuesday, July 30, 2024\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4830742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activists clash with the police during a march in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Tuesday, July 30, 2024 [File: Rajib Dhar\/AP]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"how-has-bangladesh-responded-to-hasina-s-plans-to-speak\">How has Bangladesh responded to Hasina\u2019s plans to speak?<\/h2>\n<p>The government has banned Bangladeshi media from broadcasting her speech.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Hasina made an audio address which was played to a packed FCC in New Delhi. In it, she accused Muhammad Yunus, the head of Bangladesh\u2019s then-interim government, of being a \u201cmurderous fascist\u201d and said Bangladesh would \u201cnever experience free and fair elections\u201d under him. More than 100,000 people listened to the address, which was broadcast online.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was \u201csurprised and shocked\u201d that she had been allowed to make the speech from India.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAllowing the event to take place in the Indian capital and letting mass murderer Hasina openly deliver her hate speech \u2026 constitute a clear affront to the people and the Government of Bangladesh,\u201d the ministry said in a statement on Sunday about the address \u2013 Hasina\u2019s first since she was ousted.<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Ministry\u2019s statement added that Hasina had \u201copenly called for the removal\u201d of the interim government and issued \u201cblatant incitements to her party loyalists and the general public to carry out acts of terror\u201d to derail the elections, which were held on February 12 this year.<\/p>\n<p>With Hasina in exile in India, hundreds of families who lost loved ones in the protests have been left wondering if the deposed prime minister will face justice.<\/p>\n<p>Among them is Shaina Begum, the mother of 20-year-old student Sajjat Hosen Sojal, <a href=\"\/news\/2025\/11\/19\/families-of-bangladesh-protest-victims-want-hasina-brought-back-hanged\">who was shot and his body burned<\/a> by the police\u00a0hours before the student-led uprising forced Hasina to resign and flee the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot be calm until she [Hasina] is brought back and hanged in this country,\u201d she told Al Jazeera after the former leader\u2019s death sentence was announced.<\/p>\n<div class=\"container--ads in-article-ads\">\n<div class=\"ads\"><span class=\"ads__title\"> Advertisement <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"what-is-hasina-expected-to-say-in-her-speech\">What is Hasina expected to say in her speech?<\/h2>\n<p>Hasina\u2019s speech will mark two years of her government\u2019s fall on August 5, 2024, when she fled to India by helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>She is expected to give some indication of her political future at the event, which is titled \u201cSheikh Hasina\u2019s homecoming\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the former prime minister said she and other Awami League leaders <a href=\"\/news\/2026\/7\/10\/condemned-ex-pm-hasina-plans-december-return-to-bangladesh\">planned to return from exile<\/a> in December this year and present themselves at court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI may be killed. I may be arrested. I may be sent to prison,\u201d Hasina told the AFP news agency. \u201cI am fully aware of my fate. Still, I want to go back because my people are calling me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Returning to Bangladesh despite a death sentence hanging over her is seen by some as an attempt to remain politically relevant and revive an outlawed party that once dominated Bangladesh. The Awami League was barred from participating in this year\u2019s elections, in which the BNP, led by Tarique Rahman, won a two-thirds majority.<\/p>\n<p>Smruti Pattanaik, research fellow at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies &amp; Analyses in New Delhi, said Hasina\u2019s plan to announce her return is likey aimed at mobilising Awami League members and providing them with some direction.<\/p>\n<p>Going back to Bangladesh \u201cwill allow her party to project that it is not scared to face the charges\u201d, Pattanaik told Al Jazeera. If the Awami League is to survive, \u201cthe leadership needs to think of the party\u2019s future rather than individual gain\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The new government led by Rahman is unlikely to welcome her back. Under Hasina\u2019s rule, Rahman\u2019s mother, former leader <a href=\"\/features\/2025\/12\/30\/khaleda-zia-bangladeshs-first-woman-pm-a-life-of-power-and-resistance\">Khaleda Zia<\/a>, who died in December last year, spent years in jail in Dhaka on corruption charges, which the BNP says were politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>Some observers have warned that the return of Hasina, who still has a sizeable following in Bangladesh who she may be able to mobilise, risks creating political instability.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:block;position:relative;min-width:0px;max-width:770px\">\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"why-hasn-t-india-extradited-her\">Why hasn\u2019t India extradited her?<\/h2>\n<p>Dhaka has <a href=\"\/features\/2025\/11\/18\/why-india-likely-wont-return-hasina-to-face-bangladesh-death-penalty\">repeatedly requested<\/a> Hasina\u2019s extradition, and New Delhi says the request is being examined through its legal processes.<\/p>\n<p>In November last year, the Bangladeshi Foreign Ministry cited an extradition agreement with India and said it was an \u201cobligatory responsibility\u201d for New Delhi to ensure Hasina\u2019s deportation. It added that it \u201cwould be a highly unfriendly act and a disregard for justice\u201d for India to continue to provide Hasina refuge.<\/p>\n<p>But India has long been seen as Hasina\u2019s greatest ally and is understood to be reluctant to force her return. Under her leadership, New Delhi was granted economic and security cooperation with Bangladesh, including lucrative deals on energy, trade infrastructure and defence.<\/p>\n<p>Political analysts in India told Al Jazeera in November last year that an exception exists in the extradition treaty in cases in which the offence is \u201cof a political character\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndia understands this [Hasina\u2019s case] to be political vindictiveness of the ruling political forces in Bangladesh,\u201d said Sanjay Bhardwaj, a professor of South Asian studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<div class=\"container--connatix-ads\">\n<div class=\"container--ads in-article-ads slot-3-placement\">\n<div class=\"ads\"><span class=\"ads__title\"> Advertisement <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In New Delhi\u2019s view, Bhardwaj said, Bangladesh is today ruled by \u201canti-India forces\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The then-interim leader, Yunus, frequently criticised India, and leaders of the protest movement that ousted Hasina have often blamed New Delhi for its support for the former prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>However, India-Bangladesh relations have improved since Rahman became prime minister in February. India has invited him to a BRICS summit in September.<\/p>\n<p>Dhaka had asked New Delhi \u2060to clarify its stance on Hasina\u2019s planned address, warning India that allowing political activities by a fugitive could hurt improving bilateral ties.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir \u2060Jaiswal said on Tuesday the event was being organised by a private media entity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2060government has no involvement whatsoever in it, neither does it endorse any views that may be expressed at the forum,\u201d he told a media briefing.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:block;position:relative;min-width:0px;max-width:770px\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ListenListen (8 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina governed Bangladesh for 17 years, before being ousted in 2024 [File: AFP] By Federica Marsi Published On 5 Aug 20265 Aug 2026 Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was dramatically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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