DHAKA, Aug. 7 -- Bangladesh is living through one of the most consequential political moments since its independence, and at the center of it is a question the country has not answered honestly: whether the legal system being used against Sheikh Hasina is justice, or the machinery of a government determined to eliminate the woman it replaced.

On Wednesday, the second anniversary of the uprising that ended her fifteen-year government, Hasina appeared via video link from New Delhi and told international journalists she was coming home. In December. Despite a death sentence handed down against her in absentia by a Bangladesh court in November 2025. "I may be detained, I may be sent to prison," the 78-year-old former prime minister said. "Bu...