DHAKA: Bangladesh on Monday demanded India extradite ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, hours after she was sentenced to hang for crimes against humanity .

The 78-year-old fled to India after her ouster in a mass uprising in August 2024 , fraying relations between the two neighbours.

She has been in hiding ever since.

On Monday, a court in Dhaka sentenced Hasina as well as former interior minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to death in absentia, after being found guilty of crimes against humanity over a deadly crackdown against last year's student-led uprising.

The former minister's whereabouts are not known, but Bangladesh says he is also in India.

"We urge the government of India to immediately extradite the two convicts to the Bangladeshi authorities," Dhaka's foreign

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