Hasina says she intends to return to Bangladesh in December, despite facing a death sentence.
“If death is my fate, I would rather die on my own soil, among my own people,” she told the AP last week.
The country's Interior Minister, Salahuddin Ahmed, said on Monday that authorities were investigating Hasina's request for a new passport and that India had already been asked to extradite the former leader, who has been there since fleeing.
Hasina was ousted in August 2024 in a popular uprising. Last year, she was sentenced to death in absentia for crimes against humanity.
According to the UN, up to 1,400 people were killed in crackdowns as Hasina tried to stay in power.
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