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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

Sheikh Hasina plans December return to Bangladesh with party colleagues to surrender

NEW DELHI: Ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, facing a death sentence back home where her party is banned, told Reuters she and senior party colleagues plan to return from ​exile in India around December and surrender.

The South Asian nation's longest-serving leader ​said she and members of her Awami League aim to return voluntarily to the country they fled two years ago and present themselves in ​court, testing Bangladesh's handling of its most prominent political opponent.

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