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Bangladesh’s interim government revoked the diplomatic passport of ousted premier Sheikh Hasina on Thursday, after she fled a student-led uprising by helicopter to India earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The move to cancel Sheikh Hasina’s documents leaves the former autocratic leader in potential limbo, and comes on the same day that a United Nations team arrived in Dhaka to assess whether to investigate alleged human rights violations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More than 450 people were killed — many by police fire — during the weeks leading up to Sheikh Hasina’s ouster, as crowds stormed her official residence in Dhaka and ended her iron-fisted 15-year rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The interior ministry said in a statement that Sheikh Hasina’s passport and those belonging to former government ministers and ex-lawmakers no longer in their posts “have to be revoked”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It also poses a diplomatic dilemma for Sheikh Hasina’s current host, regional powerhouse India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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