Md Aminul Islam, chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal, has called Sheikh Hasina’s application for a new passport and national identity card (NID) from India a “political stunt”. He made the remark in an immediate reaction to the media on Monday. The chief prosecutor said the tribunal’s prosecution team would hold a press conference on Tuesday (10 November) to set out its legal and institutional position on Sheikh Hasina’s wish to return home and surrender.
Earlier, a special report by the British news agency Reuters said Sheikh Hasina, who is living in India, had begun the process of returning home by December. As part of a plan to end her exile and come back, she has applied for a new passport and NID, the report said.
According to Reuters, lawyers from the London-based international law chambers Matrix Chambers sent a letter to Preeti Rahman, acting high commissioner at the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi, requesting that a new passport and NID be issued to Sheikh Hasina.
Sheikh Hasina fled to India in 2024 in the face of the student-led mass uprising. In November 2025 the International Crimes Tribunal sentenced her to death in absentia for crimes against humanity over the crackdown on the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.
The tribunal has said that the legal process to bring back the convicted fugitive is under way.
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