Bangladesh prosecutor Md Aminul Islam said on Tuesday (Nov 10) that Sheikh Hasina will face execution if she returns home. "Sheikh Hasina has no option but to face the execution of the verdict," he said. Hasina, who got a death sentence in November 2025, plans to return in December.
Bangladesh prosecutor Md Aminul Islam has warned that Sheikh Hasina will face execution if she returns, saying the deadline to appeal her death sentence has expired. The ousted prime minister has vowed to return in December while Dhaka insists India must extradite her.
The Bangladeshi prosecutor Md Aminul Islam who secured the death sentence against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Tuesday (Nov 10) that she will be executed if she returns home. In November 2025, Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal sentenced her to death in absentia for crimes against humanity over the deadly crackdown on the 2024 protests. Hasina has denied the charges, rejected the verdict, and questioned the fairness of the trial conducted in her absence.
Hasina, whose 15-year rule was ended by a mass uprising she tried to crush, has vowed to return in December to Bangladesh, despite her conviction and death sentence. "Sheikh Hasina has no option but to face the execution of the verdict," Md Aminul Islam told reporters, responding to reports she planned to return from self-imposed exile in neighbouring India. He added that the 79-year-old fugitive had missed the deadline to appeal against her conviction, leaving her with no further legal recourse. "The statutory appeal period has expired, and no appeal can now be filed," he said.
Earlier on Nov 10, banned student organisation of Hasina's Awami League - Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) - announced a nationwide shutdown amid a spate of crude bomb explosions and arson attacks targeting public transport, police establishments and government infrastructure. More than 50 crude bomb explosions and at least eight buses being set on fire have been reported in Dhaka over the past few days. The escalating incidents have triggered security concerns ahead of the shutdown, with authorities stepping up surveillance and police deployment across the capital.
It was widely reported on Nov 8-9 that Hasina has formally requested a new Bangladeshi passport and National Identity Card (NID) from the High Commission in New Delhi, marking her clearest step yet towards a planned return to Bangladesh in December. In a letter dated 9 November and written by her London-based counsel Steven Powles KC of Matrix Chambers, Hasina's lawyers asked Acting High Commissioner Preeti Rahman to issue the documents. The letter states that her existing passport and NID had reportedly been revoked by the interim government and other authorities.
However, Bangladeshi government 's State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Humaiun Kobir, has ruled out issuing a passport to ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, insisting she must be returned from India under an existing extradition treaty.
"She has been sentenced to death. Bangladesh does not provide passports to a terrorist. We want Hasina to be handed over. She will be handed over. She is a terrorist. She is a fugitive criminal. There is an active extradition treaty between Bangladesh and India," Kobir told reporters.