{"id":9082,"date":"2026-08-05T20:54:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=9082"},"modified":"2026-08-05T20:54:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:54:44","slug":"may-be-jailed-but-ill-return-to-bangladesh-this-december-says-sheikh-hasina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=9082","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;May be jailed, but I\u2019ll return to Bangladesh this December,&#8217; says Sheikh Hasina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-132972058,imgsize-66172,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/hostility-towards-india-being-manufactured-by-extremists-says-ex-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-blames-yunus-led-interim-govt.jpg\" alt=\"'May be jailed, but I\u2019ll return to Bangladesh this December,' says Sheikh Hasina\" title=\"Urging the international community to support 'people\u2019s struggle for democracy,' Hasina said Bangladesh\u2019s future depends on the restoration of democratic institutions\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Urging the international community to support 'people\u2019s struggle for democracy,' Hasina said Bangladesh\u2019s future depends on the restoration of democratic institutions\">Urging the international community to support &#8216;people\u2019s struggle for democracy,&#8217; Hasina said Bangladesh\u2019s future depends on the restoration of democratic institutions<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A defiant <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/sheikh-hasina\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sheikh Hasina<\/a> Wednesday said she was not scared of being arrested on her return from India in Dec, drawing a sharp reaction from Dhaka that called her an \u201cabsconding convicted genocider\u201d.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>\u201cI\u2019m not worried about my own future. I\u2019m worried about future of Bangladesh. My return isn\u2019t about power. It\u2019s about putting Bangladesh back on right track,\u201d she said, virtually addressing a press meet at Delhi\u2019s Foreign Correspondents\u2019 Club to mark the 2024 \u2018July Uprising\u2019 that led to her ouster from Bangladesh.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>Amid Dhaka\u2019s outrage, Awami League said the house of cricketer Shakib Al Hasan, who attended the meet, was \u201cattacked\u201d back home.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>A defiant Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said she was not scared of being arrested on her return from India in Dec, drawing a sharp reaction from Dhaka that called her an \u201cabsconding convicted genocider\u201d.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/><\/p>\n<div data-pos=\"0\" class=\"id-r-component iIpbx undefined  &#10;        \">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"May be jailed but I\u2019ll return to B\u2019desh this Dec: Hasina\" msid=\"132972054\" width=\"\" title=\"\" placeholdersrc=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/83033472.cms\" imgsize=\"\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdermsid=\"47529300\" type=\"thumb\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-132972054\/may-be-jailed-but-ill-return-to-bdesh-this-dec-hasina.jpg\" data-api-prerender=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not worried about my own future. I\u2019m worried about the future of Bangladesh. My return isn\u2019t about power. It\u2019s about putting Bangladesh back on right track,\u201d she said, virtually addressing a press meet at Delhi\u2019s Foreign Correspondents\u2019 Club to mark the 2024 \u2018July Uprising\u2019 that led to her ouster from Bangladesh.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>Amid Dhaka\u2019s outrage, Awami League said the house of cricketer Shakib Al Hasan, who attended the meet, was \u201cattacked\u201d back home.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2>Hasina: People of Bangladesh have suffered a lot&#8230; that\u2019s why I decided to go back<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>Fear cannot decide my duty to my people, and I will return to them in Dec. Whatever fate awaits me, I will return to my people,\u201d Hasina said. \u201cI may be detained. I may be sent to prison. I am returning,\u201d she said, combatively responding to statements of BNP functionaries that the Awami League chief would be arrested as soon as she lands in Dhaka.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>In a statement, the Bangladesh foreign ministry said it\u2019s \u201coutraged that absconding convicted genocider\u201d Hasina was allowed to engage in a live interaction with media in New Delhi, where \u201cshe and her henchmen launched venomous vitriol against Bangladesh and her people\u201d. \u201cDhaka deeply regrets that despite concerns conveyed a priori to the government of India about likely ramifications of this event on reset of our bilateral relations, this public event was permitted to be held,\u201d it said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/>The exiled former PM struck a tough note in her first group interaction with media since she was forced to flee. She termed the \u201cJuly Uprising\u201d as a regime change operation and cited a statement of her sworn rival and former head of the stop-gap regime that took over from her. \u201c(Muhammad) Yunus had himself said the protests were meticulously designed by a mastermind. His own words expose the truth. It wasn\u2019t simply a spontaneous student protest.<!-- --> There was no visible or responsible leadership. Instructions were given invisibly,\u201d she told the news conference.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"30\"\/>While other speakers, including her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, were on video, she didn\u2019t go into video mode at the presser, which was supposed to be her first public appearance after her ouster.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"33\"\/>Urging the international community to support \u201cpeople\u2019s struggle for democracy\u201d, Hasina said Bangladesh\u2019s future depends on restoration of democratic institutions, and outlined several demands, including \u201clifting ban on Awami League, releasing political prisoners, withdrawing false cases, restoring freedom of speech and media freedom, guaranteeing judicial independence, and ensuring law enforcement agencies serve people\u201d.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"36\"\/>Bangladesh\u2019s situation \u201cis not only a domestic crisis; it affects regional peace, security, development and human dignity\u201d, Hasina said. When asked about a specific time and date, Hasina said, \u201cI just declared that I am coming. I\u2019m going to Bangladesh. Now, date and everything, of course, when the time comes, I will tell everybody. I believe that the people of Bangladesh have suffered a lot and that\u2019s why I decided to go back.<!-- --> The month of December is Bangladesh\u2019s \u2018Victory Month\u2019. So, I want to go back in the month of December,\u201d she said.<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/south-asia\/may-be-jailed-but-ill-return-to-bangladesh-this-december-says-hasina\/articleshow\/132971880.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urging the international community to support &#8216;people\u2019s struggle for democracy,&#8217; Hasina said Bangladesh\u2019s future depends on the restoration of democratic institutions A defiant Sheikh Hasina Wednesday said she was not scared of being arrested on her return from India in Dec, drawing a sharp reaction from Dhaka that called her an \u201cabsconding convicted genocider\u201d.\u201cI\u2019m not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-31"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hostility-towards-india-being-manufactured-by-extremists-says-ex-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-blames-150x150.avif","medium":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hostility-towards-india-being-manufactured-by-extremists-says-ex-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-blames-300x169.avif","medium_large":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hostility-towards-india-being-manufactured-by-extremists-says-ex-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-blames.avif","large":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hostility-towards-india-being-manufactured-by-extremists-says-ex-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-blames.avif","1536x1536":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hostility-towards-india-being-manufactured-by-extremists-says-ex-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-blames.avif","2048x2048":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hostility-towards-india-being-manufactured-by-extremists-says-ex-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-blames.avif","blogsy-small":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hostility-towards-india-being-manufactured-by-extremists-says-ex-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-blames.avif","blogsy-small-tall":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hostility-towards-india-being-manufactured-by-extremists-says-ex-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-blames.avif","blogsy-small-square":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hostility-towards-india-being-manufactured-by-extremists-says-ex-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-blames.avif","blogsy-small-masonry":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hostility-towards-india-being-manufactured-by-extremists-says-ex-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-blames.avif","blogsy-medium":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hostility-towards-india-being-manufactured-by-extremists-says-ex-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-blames.avif","blogsy-medium-masonry":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hostility-towards-india-being-manufactured-by-extremists-says-ex-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-blames.avif","blogsy-large":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hostility-towards-india-being-manufactured-by-extremists-says-ex-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-blames.avif","blogsy-wide":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hostility-towards-india-being-manufactured-by-extremists-says-ex-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-blames.avif"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8709732a479614e7a8aa24d3eb1b239f30dc6d90c61464ed495001e7a469d856?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Urging the international community to support &#8216;people\u2019s struggle for democracy,&#8217; 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