{"id":40869,"date":"2026-01-25T23:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=40869"},"modified":"2026-01-25T23:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:30:14","slug":"bangladesh-criticises-india-over-fugitive-leader-hasinas-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/bangladesh-criticises-india-over-fugitive-leader-hasinas-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh criticises India over fugitive leader Hasina&#8217;s speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Bangladesh said on Sunday it was &#8220;surprised&#8221; and &#8220;shocked&#8221; that India had allowed fugitive former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to make a public address in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>Hasina, 78, fled to neighbouring India in August 2024 after a student-led uprising ended her iron-fisted 15-year rule. She made her first public speech since then in an audio address to a packed press club in Delhi on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>She was found guilty in absentia by a Dhaka court in November of incitement, issuing an order to kill and inaction to prevent atrocities and was sentenced to be hanged.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government and the people of Bangladesh are surprised and shocked,&#8221; Dhaka&#8217;s foreign ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Allowing the event to take place in the Indian capital and letting mass murderer Hasina openly deliver her hate speech&#8230; constitute a clear affront to the people and the Government of Bangladesh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It said allowing Hasina to make the speech set &#8220;a dangerous precedent&#8221; that could &#8220;seriously impair bilateral relations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh voters go to the polls on February 12 to choose new leaders after a period of turmoil that followed the overthrow of Hasina&#8217;s autocratic government.<\/p>\n<p>Hasina said in her audio address that &#8220;Bangladesh will never experience free and fair elections&#8221; under interim leader Muhammad Yunus.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100,000 people watched the address, which was broadcast online.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh has asked India to extradite Hasina, but New Delhi has yet to comment on the request.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s past support for Hasina has frayed relations between the South Asian neighbours since her overthrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh said on Sunday it was &#8220;surprised&#8221; and &#8220;shocked&#8221; that India had allowed fugitive former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to make a public address in New Delhi. Hasina, 78, fled to neighbouring India in August 2024 after a student-led uprising ended her iron-fisted 15-year rule. She made her first public speech since then in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40870,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40869\/revisions\/40870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}