{"id":22467,"date":"2026-06-29T16:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22467"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:20:11","slug":"bangladeshs-former-prime-minister-sheikh-hasina-announces-return-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22467","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh&#8217;s Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Announces Return Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has announced that she plans to return to Bangladesh later this year despite being sentenced to death in absentia on charges of crimes against humanity earlier this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 78-year-old leader fled to neighboring India in August 2024 after a student-led protest movement ended her 15-year rule.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with an Indian broadcaster, Sheikh Hasina said she was not afraid of death and described the verdict against her as illegal, unconstitutional and politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>She claimed that multiple conspiracies had been orchestrated against her throughout her political career, but said she had repeatedly overcome those challenges and was elected prime minister five times through the support of the people.<\/p>\n<p>Hasina also stated that she remains committed to her political stance and intends to continue her political struggle after returning to Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>Her announcement has renewed attention on Bangladesh&#8217;s political landscape, although authorities have not yet issued an official response regarding her proposed return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has announced that she plans to return to Bangladesh later this year despite being sentenced to death in absentia on charges of crimes against humanity earlier this year. The 78-year-old leader fled to neighboring India in August 2024 after a student-led protest movement ended her 15-year rule. In an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,37],"tags":[12611,1489,9364,10371,1463,154,768,5625,12610,2768,8917,12612,9895],"class_list":["post-22467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-world","tag-awami-league","tag-bangladesh","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-death-sentence","tag-former-prime-minister","tag-india","tag-interview","tag-political-crisis","tag-return-to-bangladesh","tag-sheikh-hasina","tag-south-asia","tag-student-protests","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22468,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22467\/revisions\/22468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}