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Bangladesh seeks India's extradition of ousted PM

Beenish Javed
December 25, 2024

On Dhaka’s streets, people back the interim government’s call to extradite ex-PM Sheikh Hasina. Once a democratic icon, Hasina fled to Delhi in August after a student-led uprising ended her 15-year rule. How did it come to this?

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