Bangladesh has rejected Sheikh Hasina’s reported request for a new passport and national identity card, says she must return from India through extradition, while the chief prosecutor says she has no legal basis for travel documents and must face her death sentence.
The request was made in an email to Bangladesh’s High Commission in New Delhi by London-based lawyers at Matrix Chambers. The lawyers sought new documents after Hasina’s passport and ID were reportedly revoked. Bangladesh Foreign Affairs State Minister Humaiun Kobir said the country would not issue the documents.
He called on India to hand Hasina over under the two countries’ extradition treaty. Hasina has lived in India since fleeing Bangladesh in August 2024. She has said she plans to return in December and surrender to a court.
Chief prosecutor Md Aminul Islam said passport rules prevent the government from issuing a document to someone convicted of a serious crime. He argued that the time for Hasina to appeal had expired. Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal sentenced Hasina to death in her absence in November 2025 for crimes against humanity connected to the crackdown on the 2024 student-led uprising.
Hasina has denied the charges. Islam also questioned whether Hasina had authorized the lawyers to make the request. He said she should ask India to help arrange her return under the extradition treaty.