Bangladesh’s fugitive ex-leader warns of mass voter boycott in 2026 polls

Defiant ousted Bangladesh leader refuses to apologise for protester deaths

In a rare interview, former authoritarian leader Sheikh Hasina tells The Independent she is not to blame for bloodshed during her ousting, and calls her trial in absentia a ‘sham’

Bangladesh's Sheikh Hasina warns of mass voter boycott as Awami League party barred from election

“The ban on the Awami League is not only unjust, it is self-defeating,” Ms. Hasina said in emailed responses to Reuters — her first media engagement since her dramatic fall from power after 15 straight years at the helm of Bangladeshi politics

Bangladesh’s fugitive ex-leader warns of mass voter boycott in 2026 polls

Sheikh Hasina puts up defiant front from exile in India, saying ban on her Awami League will disenfranchise millions.

Bangladesh’s Sheikh Hasina warns of mass voter boycott as her party barred from election

Millions of supporters of Bangladesh’s Awami League will boycott next year’s national election, after the party was barred from contesting the polls, ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told Reuters on Wednesday from her exile in New Delhi. Hasina, 78, said she would not return to Bangladesh under any government formed after elections that exclude her party, and plans to remain in India, where she fled in August 2024 following a deadly student-l…

Fugitive ex-PM says Bangladesh vote risks deepening divide

Bangladesh's fugitive ex-leader Sheikh Hasina warned Wednesday that holding elections without her party -- the first since her overthrow -- was "sowing the seeds" of further division in her country.

Bangladesh's Sheikh Hasina warns of mass voter boycott as her party barred from election

NEW DELHI/DHAKA - Millions of supporters of Bangladesh’s Awami League will boycott next year’s national election, after the party was barred from contesting the polls, ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told Reuters on Wednesday from her exile in New Delhi. Read more at straitstimes.com.