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Bangladesh revokes diplomatic passport of ex-PM Sheikh Hasina

Bangladesh’s interim government has revoked the diplomatic passport of ousted premier Sheikh Hasina after she fled a student-led uprising earlier this month.

The interior ministry disclosed in a statement that Hasina’s passport, as well as those belonging to former government ministers and ex-lawmakers no longer in their posts, “have to be revoked.”

More than 450 people were killed during the weeks leading up to Hasina’s ouster, as crowds stormed her official residence in Dhaka.

Part of the statement reads, “The former prime minister, her advisers, the former cabinet and all members of the dissolved national assembly were eligible for diplomatic passports by virtue of the positions they held,” the ministry said in a statement.

“If they have been removed or retired from their posts, their and their spouses’ diplomatic passports have to be revoked.”

Hasina’s government has been accused of widespread abuses, including the mass detention and extrajudicial killing of political opponents.

Dhaka’s new authorities said that Hasina, and other former top officials during her tenure, could apply for a standard passport, but that those documents were contingent on approval.

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