New Delhi, July 10 -- NEW DELHI - Ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, 78 and two years into Indian exile, announced Thursday she will return to Bangladesh in December to face the courts directly, including a death sentence handed down in absentia, in a declaration that could upend the country's tenuous political transition.

Speaking from New Delhi, Hasina called on senior members of the banned Awami League to join her in a coordinated return. "They may arrest me on my return, they may even kill me. Still, I have to go," she said. "If death comes, I want it to come on my own soil." Former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, who also faces capital punishment for his role in actions taken during the 2024 uprising, is among th...