Bangladesh will seek extradition of ex-premier Sheikh Hasina from India

DHAKA, Bangladesh — 

Bangladesh's interim person and Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus said Sunday that his medication volition question the extradition of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from India, wherever has been successful exile since fleeing a wide uprising successful August.

In a televised code to the federation connected his archetypal 100 days successful office, Yunus said that the interim authorities volition effort those liable including Hasina for hundreds of deaths during the student-led uprising that ended her 15-year rule. Yunus took the helm connected Aug. 8, 3 days aft Hasina fled the country.

He said that not lone the deaths successful the uprising but each different violations of quality rights, including alleged enforced disappearances portion Hasina was successful power, would beryllium investigated. Bangladesh has sought assistance from the planetary constabulary enactment Interpol successful issuing a reddish announcement for the apprehension of Hasina and her associates.

"We volition question the instrumentality of the fallen autocrat Sheikh Hasina from India," Yunus said. "I person already discussed the contented with main authoritative of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan."

While Hasina and her adjacent associates are facing galore transgression charges astatine home, the Yunus-led authorities is besides pushing for the ICC to instrumentality up the case.

Yunus said his government's astir important task was to clasp a caller predetermination to manus implicit powerfulness to an elected government, but helium did not spell retired immoderate timeframe. He said his medication would archetypal bring astir reforms successful assorted sectors including successful the electoral system.

He promised that erstwhile the electoral reforms are completed, a roadmap for the caller predetermination would beryllium unveiled.

Yunus downplayed arsenic "exaggerated" reports of attacks connected minorities, particularly Hindus, galore of whom complained that hard-line Islamists are becoming progressively influential since Hasina's ouster.