Dhaka, Nov. 11 -- Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity, and she has no passport to come home on.

Talk of the ousted prime minister's return has flared up again after her representatives asked the Bangladesh High Commission in Delhi to issue her one. Hasina has been living in self-imposed exile in India. So how could she get back?

Lawyers say she has few options. With a death sentence pending, she would have to be arrested as soon as she arrived. As a convicted criminal, she cannot legally get a passport either.

After going through Bangladesh's Penal Code and Passport Act, the lawyers see only two ways home for the Awami League president: a travel pass from the High Commission in New Delhi, or a return u...