New Delhi, July 29 -- NEW DELHI - When Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal issued arrest warrants for Sheikh Hasina and nine of her associates last week on charges of crimes against humanity, the order landed in a city that has no legal obligation to act on it. Hasina is in Delhi. She has been there since August 2024, when she fled Bangladesh aboard a military transport as protests overwhelmed her government. The warrants, signed by a tribunal whose jurisdiction ends at Bangladesh's borders, have not changed that fact.

The charges filed by Bangladesh's ICT-2 center on the extrajudicial killing of Ekramul Haque during a counter-narcotics operation in the Teknaf district under the Rapid Action Battalion, a paramilitary force that op...