Sheikh Hasina#Resignation and flight from Bangladesh

{{See also|Tungipara Sheikh family|15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état}}

Hasina was born on 28 September 1947 to the Bengali Muslim Sheikh family of Tungipara in East Bengal.{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/city/news/happy-birthday-pm-1806445 |title=PM's birthday today |work=The Daily Star |date=29 September 2019 |access-date=29 September 2019 |archive-date=29 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929103323/https://www.thedailystar.net/city/news/happy-birthday-pm-1806445 |url-status=live}}{{Cite book |script-title=bn:বাংলাদেশ ও অনুপ্রেরণার গল্প |date=2022 |publisher=Inspiring Bangladesh |isbn=978-984-35-0351-0 |page=30 |trans-title=Bangladesh and a Story of Inspiration}} Her father was Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and her mother was Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib.{{cite web |title=Sheikh Hasina |url=http://www.btrc.gov.bd/content/sheikh-hasina |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808124211/http://btrc.gov.bd/content/sheikh-hasina |archive-date=8 August 2019 |access-date=15 August 2019 |website=BTRC}} Hasina grew up in Tungipara during her early childhood under the care of her mother and grandmother. When the family moved to Dhaka, they initially lived in the neighborhood of Segunbagicha.{{cite news |url=https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/developing-newspaper-reading-habit-sheikh-hasina-revisits-memory-lane-143077 |title=Developing newspaper reading habit: Sheikh Hasina revisits memory lane |work=The Business Standard |date=9 October 2020 |access-date=14 August 2023 |archive-date=30 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240430141746/https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/developing-newspaper-reading-habit-sheikh-hasina-revisits-memory-lane-143077 |url-status=live }}

When Hasina's father became a government minister in 1954, the family lived on 3 Minto Road. In the 1950s, her father also worked in the Alpha Insurance Company, aside from his political activities. In the 1960s, the family moved into a home built by her father on Road 32 in Dhanmondi. In many interviews and speeches, Hasina talked about growing up while her father was held as a political prisoner by the Pakistani government. In one interview, she remarked that "For instance, after the United Front Ministry was elected in 1954, and we were living in No 3 Minto Road, one day, my mother told us that father had been arrested the night before. Then we used to visit him in jail and we always realised that he was put in jail so often because he loved the people."{{cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/supplements/national-mourning-day-2021/news/the-shadow-larger-life-father-2152576 |title=In the shadow of a larger-than-life father |work=The Daily Star |date=15 August 2021 |access-date=14 August 2023 |archive-date=17 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240717145530/https://www.thedailystar.net/supplements/national-mourning-day-2021/news/the-shadow-larger-life-father-2152576 |url-status=live }} Hasina and her siblings had very little time to spend with their father because of his preoccupation with politics.

Hasina attended primary school in her village of Tungipara. When her family moved to Dhaka, she attended the Azimpur Girls' School and Begum Badrunnesa Girls' College.{{cite news |last1=প্রতিবেদক |first1=নিজস্ব |script-title=bn:যে কলেজের ছাত্রী প্রধানমন্ত্রী হয়েছেন |url=https://www.prothomalo.com/education/%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%9B%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%80-%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A7%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%80-%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%9F%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9B%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8 |access-date=28 July 2024 |work=Prothom Alo |date=29 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240728133211/https://www.prothomalo.com/education/%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%9B%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%80-%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A7%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%80-%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%9F%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9B%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8 |archive-date=28 July 2024 |language=bn}} She enrolled for a bachelor's degree at Eden College. She was elected as the Vice President of the Students Union in Eden College between 1966 and 1967.{{cite news |title=PM Sheikh Hasina: From student leader to world leader |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/294878/pm-sheikh-hasina-from-student-leader-to-world |work=Dhaka Tribune |date=27 September 2022 |access-date=14 August 2023 |archive-date=14 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230814181819/https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/294878/pm-sheikh-hasina-from-student-leader-to-world |url-status=live }} In 1967, she married M. A. Wazed Miah, who was a Bengali nuclear scientist with a doctorate in physics from Durham.{{cite web |url=https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php/Miah,_MA_Wazed |title=Miah, MA Wazed |website=Banglapedia |access-date=14 August 2023 |archive-date=14 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414072407/https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php/Miah,_MA_Wazed |url-status=live }} Hasina studied Bengali literature at Dhaka University, from where she graduated in 1973.{{cite news |title=A walk through PM Hasina's life |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/294843/a-walk-through-pm-hasina-s-life |work=Dhaka Tribune |date=28 September 2022 |access-date=14 August 2023 |archive-date=14 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230814181623/https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/294843/a-walk-through-pm-hasina-s-life |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://www.tbsnews.net/features/panorama/notable-students-dhaka-university-268888 |title=Notable students from Dhaka University |date=July 2021 |access-date=14 August 2023 |archive-date=14 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230814181819/https://www.tbsnews.net/features/panorama/notable-students-dhaka-university-268888 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php/Hasina,_Sheikh |work=The Business Standard |title=Hasina, Sheikh – Banglapedia |access-date=14 August 2023 |archive-date=14 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230814181608/https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php/Hasina,_Sheikh |url-status=live }} Hasina lived in Rokeya Hall, which was founded in 1938 as the women's dormitory of Dhaka University; and later named after feminist Begum Rokeya.{{cite web |url=https://du.ac.bd/history/HRH |title=Home :: Dhaka University |access-date=14 August 2023 |archive-date=19 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240319131408/https://du.ac.bd/history/HRH |url-status=live }} She was involved in the politics of the Bangladesh Chhatra League and was elected as the general secretary of the women's unit in Rokeya Hall.

Except for her husband, children and sister Sheikh Rehana, Hasina's entire family was murdered during the 15 August 1975 Bangladeshi coup d'état which saw the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/08/23/archives/bangladesh-coup-a-day-of-killings-account-depicts-how-young.html | title=Bangladesh Coup: A Day of Killings | work=The New York Times | date=23 August 1975 | access-date=31 July 2024 | archive-date=18 November 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231118222143/https://www.nytimes.com/1975/08/23/archives/bangladesh-coup-a-day-of-killings-account-depicts-how-young.html | url-status=live }}{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/08/15/archives/mujib-reported-overthrown-and-killed-in-a-coup-by-the-bangladesh.html | title=Mu jib Reported Overthrown and Killed in a Coup by the Bangladesh Military | work=The New York Times | date=15 August 1975 | access-date=31 July 2024 | archive-date=27 June 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240627112526/https://www.nytimes.com/1975/08/15/archives/mujib-reported-overthrown-and-killed-in-a-coup-by-the-bangladesh.html | url-status=live }} Hasina, Wazed and Rehana were visiting Europe at the time of the assassination. They took refuge in the house of the Bangladeshi ambassador to West Germany; before taking up an offer of political asylum from Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India.{{cite news |url=https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/mournful-day-681882 |title=The Mournful Day |work=The Business Standard |date=13 August 2023 |access-date=14 August 2023 |archive-date=6 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240806145022/https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/mournful-day-681882 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2017/apr/11/when-we-were-homeless-countryless-indira-gandhi-called-us-to-india-sheikh-hasina-1592209.html |title=When we were homeless, countryless; Indira Gandhi called us to India: Sheikh Hasina |work=The New Indian Express |access-date=14 August 2023 |archive-date=14 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230814181829/https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2017/apr/11/when-we-were-homeless-countryless-indira-gandhi-called-us-to-india-sheikh-hasina-1592209.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Hasina-recalls-her-historic-moment-with-Indira-Gandhi/article16837325.ece |title=Hasina recalls her historic moment with Indira Gandhi |newspaper=The Hindu |date=12 January 2010 |access-date=14 August 2023 |archive-date=17 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240717145530/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Hasina-recalls-her-historic-moment-with-Indira-Gandhi/article16837325.ece |url-status=live }} The surviving members of the family lived in exile in New Delhi, India for six years.{{cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/daily-star-books/news/memoir-retraces-sheikh-hasina-and-sheikh-rehanas-days-exile-2979666 |title=A memoir that retraces Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana's days in exile |work=The Daily Star |date=10 March 2022 |access-date=15 August 2023 |archive-date=15 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230815153549/https://www.thedailystar.net/daily-star-books/news/memoir-retraces-sheikh-hasina-and-sheikh-rehanas-days-exile-2979666 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web|url=https://worldleaders.columbia.edu/directory/sheikh-hasina|title=Sheikh Hasina | World Leaders Forum|access-date=15 August 2023|archive-date=25 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240825140920/https://worldleaders.columbia.edu/directory/sheikh-hasina|url-status=live}} Hasina was barred from entering Bangladesh by the military government of Ziaur Rahman.{{cite web | url=https://bdnews24.com/politics/x9a5dz7gqa | title=Hasina says Awami League 'never runs away from anything' | access-date=14 August 2023 | archive-date=14 August 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230814184747/https://bdnews24.com/politics/x9a5dz7gqa | url-status=live }} After she was elected President of the Bangladesh Awami League on 16 February 1981, Hasina returned home on 17 May 1981 and received a welcome from thousands of Awami League supporters.{{cite news |date=23 September 2013 |title=Sheikh Hasina: They 'should be punished' |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/frostinterview/2013/09/2013920103532114976.html |work=Al Jazeera |access-date=16 November 2014 |archive-date=24 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150124201256/http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/frostinterview/2013/09/2013920103532114976.html |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://cri.org.bd/2021/05/17/what-you-need-to-know-about-sheikh-hasinas-homecoming/ |title=What you need to know about Sheikh Hasina's homecoming |date=17 May 2021 |access-date=14 August 2023 |archive-date=26 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240226170739/https://cri.org.bd/2021/05/17/what-you-need-to-know-about-sheikh-hasinas-homecoming/ |url-status=live }}

While living in exile in India, Hasina was elected President of the Awami League in 1981.{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/sheikh-hasina-wajed/ |title=Sheikh Hasina Wajed |website=Forbes |access-date=28 March 2016 |archive-date=10 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410095025/https://www.forbes.com/profile/sheikh-hasina-wajed/ |url-status=live}} The party has been described as a "Centre-Left" party.{{Cite news |url=https://daily-sun.com/printversion/details/257850 |title=Sheikh Hasina : The Modern Day Joan Of Arc |work=Daily Sun |access-date=8 August 2019 |archive-date=8 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808123735/https://daily-sun.com/printversion/details/257850 |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2005455_2005458_2005459,00.html |title=Top Female Leaders Around the World |last=Adams |first=William Lee |date=16 September 2011 |newspaper=Time |issn=0040-781X |access-date=28 March 2016 |archive-date=10 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410110937/http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2005455_2005458_2005459,00.html |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://aceproject.org/ace-en/focus/focus-on-effective-electoral-assistance/a-bangladesh-case-study-technical-electoral/mobile_browsing/onePag |title=ACE |website=aceproject.org |access-date=8 August 2019 |archive-date=8 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808123736/http://aceproject.org/ace-en/focus/focus-on-effective-electoral-assistance/a-bangladesh-case-study-technical-electoral/mobile_browsing/onePag |url-status=live}}

Under martial law, Hasina was in and out of detention throughout the 1980s. In 1984, she was put under house arrest in February and again in November. In March 1985, she was put under house arrest for another three months.{{cite web |url=https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/directory/sheikh-hasina/ |title=Sheikh Hasina – |website=Archives of Women's Political Communication |access-date=8 August 2019 |archive-date=8 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808162313/https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/directory/sheikh-hasina/ |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://btrc.gov.bd/bn/node/3581 |title=Sheikh Hasina {{!}} বিটিআরসি |website=BTRC |access-date=8 August 2019 |archive-date=8 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808123744/http://btrc.gov.bd/bn/node/3581 |url-status=live}}

Hasina and the AL participated in the 1986 Bangladeshi general election held under President Hussain Muhammad Ershad. She served as the leader of the parliamentary opposition in 1986–1987. She led an eight-party alliance as opposition against Ershad.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/29/world/bangladesh-storms-kill-200-in-week-3000-are-missing.html |title=Bangladesh Storms Kill 200 in Week; 3,000 Are Missing |date=29 August 1987 |work=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press |access-date=8 February 2019 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=9 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124700/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/29/world/bangladesh-storms-kill-200-in-week-3000-are-missing.html |url-status=live}} Hasina's decision to take part in the election had been criticised by her opponents, since the election was held under martial law, and the other main opposition group boycotted the poll. However, her supporters maintained that she used the platform effectively to challenge Ershad's rule. Ershad dissolved the parliament in December 1987 when Hasina and her Awami League resigned in an attempt to call for a fresh general election to be held under a neutral government.{{Cite web |date=27 September 2018 |title=A Life sketch of Sheikh Hasina; Sentinel of Democracy |url=https://albd.org/pages/16/Sheikh-Hasina |website=Bangladesh Awami League |access-date=18 January 2024 |archive-date=1 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240301201821/https://www.albd.org/pages/16/Sheikh-Hasina |url-status=live }} During November and December in 1987, a mass uprising happened in Dhaka and several people were killed, including Noor Hossain, an Awami League activist and supporter of Hasina.{{Cite web |title=Hossain, Shahid Nur |url=https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php/Hossain,_Shahid_Nur |access-date=20 July 2022 |website=Banglapedia |language=en |archive-date=20 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920171905/https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php/Hossain,_Shahid_Nur |url-status=live}}

Her party, along with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) under Khaleda Zia, continued to work to restore democratically elected government, which they achieved after a constitutional referendum returning the country to a parliamentary form of government.{{Cite news |last=Lawal |first=Shola |date=5 January 2024 |title=Bans and boycotts: The troubled history of Bangladesh's elections |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/5/bangladesh-elections-a-timeline-of-controversy |work=Al Jazeera |access-date=18 January 2024 |archive-date=5 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240805222429/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/5/bangladesh-elections-a-timeline-of-controversy |url-status=live }}

The subsequent parliamentary general election in 1991 was won by the BNP.

After several years of autocratic rule, widespread protests and strikes had paralysed the economy. Government officers refused to follow orders and resigned. Members of the Bangladesh Rifles laid down their weapons instead of firing on protestors and curfew was openly violated. Hasina worked with Khaleda Zia in organising opposition to Ershad.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/09/world/revolution-brings-bangladesh-hope.html |title=Revolution Brings Bangladesh Hope |last1=Crossette |first1=Barbara |date=9 December 1990 |work=The New York Times |access-date=8 February 2019 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=4 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104171632/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/09/world/revolution-brings-bangladesh-hope.html |url-status=live}} A huge mass protest in December 1990 ousted Ershad from power when he resigned in favour of his vice president, Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed, the Chief Justice of the Bangladesh Supreme Court. The caretaker government, headed by Ahmed, administered a general election for the parliament. The BNP, led by Khaleda Zia, won a general majority, and Hasina's Awami League emerged as the largest opposition party.{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1575704.stm |title=Analysis: A tale of two women |date=2 October 2001 |work=BBC News |access-date=28 March 2016 |archive-date=13 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313102335/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1575704.stm |url-status=live}} Of the three constituencies Hasina contested, she lost in two and won in one. Accepting defeat, she offered her resignation as the party president but stayed on at the request of party leaders.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

Politics in Bangladesh took a decisive turn in 1994, after a by-election in Magura-2,{{Cite news |title=Memories of Magura 1994 |url=https://www.newagebd.net/article/99198/memories-of-magura-1994 |access-date=20 July 2022 |work=New Age |language=en |archive-date=20 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220720150615/https://www.newagebd.net/article/99198/memories-of-magura-1994 |url-status=live}} held after the death of the member of parliament for that constituency, a member of Hasina's party. The Awami League had expected to win back the seat, but the BNP candidate won through rigging and manipulation, according to the neutral parties who witnessed the election.{{Cite news |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/magura-polls-then-and-now-19000 |title=Magura: Polls then and now |date=7 April 2014 |newspaper=The Daily Star |access-date=2 January 2017 |archive-date=3 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170103002320/http://www.thedailystar.net/magura-polls-then-and-now-19000 |url-status=live}} Hasina led the Bangladesh Awami League in boycotting the parliament from 1994.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/14/world/bangladesh-facing-an-election-crisis.html |title=Bangladesh Facing an Election Crisis |last=Burns |first=John F. |date=14 January 1996 |work=The New York Times |access-date=8 February 2019 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=9 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124959/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/14/world/bangladesh-facing-an-election-crisis.html |url-status=live}}

{{main|Premiership of Sheikh Hasina}}

{{see also|First Hasina ministry}}

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The Awami League (AL), with other opposition parties, demanded that the next general elections be held under a neutral caretaker government, and that provision for caretaker governments to manage elections be incorporated in the constitution. The ruling BNP refused to act on these demands.{{Cite news |last=Haidar |first=Suhasini |date=17 October 2020 |title=Before his pen went dry, Pranab Mukherjee wrote on 1971, love for Sheikh Mujibur Rahman family |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/book-on-mujibur-rahman-will-have-the-last-essay-penned-by-pranab-mukherjee/article32880610.ece |access-date=7 November 2020 |issn=0971-751X |archive-date=31 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031232948/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/book-on-mujibur-rahman-will-have-the-last-essay-penned-by-pranab-mukherjee/article32880610.ece |url-status=live}}

Opposition parties launched an unprecedented campaign, calling strikes for weeks on end. The Government accused them of destroying the economy while the opposition countered that the BNP could resolve the issue by acceding to their demands. In late 1995, the members of parliament of the AL and other parties resigned en masse. Parliament completed its five-year term and the February 1996 general election was held. The election was boycotted by all major parties except the ruling BNP, who won all the seats in the parliament as a result. Hasina described the election as a farce.{{cite web |url=https://bdaffairs.com/bangladeshi-general-election-february-1996/ |title=Bangladeshi General Election, February 1996 |website=Bangladesh Affairs |access-date=8 February 2019 |archive-date=9 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124445/https://bdaffairs.com/bangladeshi-general-election-february-1996/ |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-69196 |title=Past elections at a glance |date=29 December 2008 |work=The Daily Star |access-date=8 February 2019 |archive-date=9 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209123842/https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-69196 |url-status=live}}

The new parliament, composed almost entirely of BNP members, amended the constitution to create provisions for a caretaker government (CTG). The June 1996 general election was held under a neutral caretaker government headed by retired Chief Justice Muhammad Habibur Rahman. The AL won 146 seats, a plurality, but fell short of a simple majority. Khaleda Zia, leader of the BNP who won 104 seats, denounced the results and alleged vote rigging. This was in contrast with the neutral observers who said that the election was free and fair.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/14/world/after-21-years-bangladeshi-party-is-returned-to-power.html |title=After 21 Years, Bangladeshi Party Is Returned to Power |last=Burns |first=John F. |date=14 June 1996 |work=The New York Times |access-date=8 February 2019 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=9 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124919/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/14/world/after-21-years-bangladeshi-party-is-returned-to-power.html |url-status=live}}

Hasina served her first term as Prime Minister of Bangladesh from June 1996 to July 2001. She signed the 30-year water-sharing treaty with India governing the Ganges. Her administration repealed the Indemnity Act, which granted immunity from prosecution to the killers of Sheikh Mujib. Her government opened-up the telecommunications industry to the private sector, which until then was limited to government-owned companies. In December 1997, Hasina's administration signed the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord, ending the insurgency in the Chittagong Division for which Hasina won the UNESCO Peace Prize. Her government established the Ashrayan-1 Project while bilateral relations with neighbouring states improved. Hasina's government completed the Bangabandhu Bridge mega project in 1998. In 1999, the government started the New Industrial Policy (NIP) which aimed to strengthen the private sector and encourage growth.{{cite web |url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Hasina,_Sheikh |title=Hasina, Sheikh |website=Banglapedia |access-date=2 January 2017 |archive-date=12 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201012093315/http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Hasina%2C_Sheikh |url-status=live}}

The Hasina government implemented some reforms to different sectors of the economy, which resulted in the country attaining an average of 5.5% GDP growth. The consumer price index remained at 5%, lower than other developing states who experienced 10% inflation. The Fifth Five-Year Plan (1997–2002) of the government placed an emphasis on poverty alleviation programmes which provided credit and training to unemployed youths and women. Food-grain production increased from 19 million tons to 26.5 million tons while the poverty rate reduced. A Housing Fund was established to provide fiscal assistance to those homeless as a result of river erosion. The government launched the Ekti Bari Ekti Khamar scheme which accentuated the incomes of the poorer segments of society through household farming.

The Hasina government adopted the New Industrial Policy in 1999 which aimed to bolster the private sector and attract foreign direct investment, thus expediating the globalisation process. The NIP aimed for 25% of the economy to be industry based with 20% of the country's workforce employed in industry. It encouraged the institution of small, cottage and labour-intensive industries with an onus on skill development for women for employment, development of indigenous technology and industries based on local raw materials. The NIP allowed for foreign investors to own 100% equity in Bangladeshi enterprises without prior approval from the government and all but four sectors of the economy were opened up to the private sector.

Attempts were made to create a social security system to protect the most vulnerable in society. The Hasina administration introduced an allowance scheme which resulted in 400,000 elderly people receiving monthly allowances. This scheme was later extended to widows, distressed and deserted women. A national foundation devoted to rehabilitation and training of people, with disabilities was founded with an initial grant of ৳100 million funded by the government. The Ashrayan-1 Project provided shelter and employment to the homeless.

Hasina was the first prime minister to engage in a "Prime Minister's Question-Answer Time" in the Jatiya Sangsad. The Jatiya Sangsad repealed the Indemnity Act, allowing for the killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to be prosecuted. The government introduced a four-tier system of local government including the Gram Parishad, Zila Parishad and Upazila Parishad by passing legislation.

The Hasina government liberalised the telecommunications industry, initially granting four licenses to private companies to provide cellular mobile telephone services. This resulted in the previous state monopoly being disbanded meaning prices began to reduce and access became more widespread. The government established the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission to regulate the newly liberalised telecommunications industry.

The government established the National Policy for Women's Advancement which sought to ensure equality between men and women. The policy aimed to guarantee security and employment, create an educated and skilled workforce, eliminate discrimination and repression against women, establish human rights and end poverty and ensure participation in socio-economic development. The government introduced three reserved seats for women in all Union Parishad election in December 1997. Hasina's cabinet approved the National Plan of Action for Children in 1999 to ensure rights and improved upbringing.

Hasina attended the World Micro Credit summit in Washington DC; the World Food Summit in Rome; the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference in India; the OIC summit in Pakistan; the 9th SAARC summit in the Maldives; the first D-8 summit in Turkey; the 5th World Conference for the Aged in Germany; the Commonwealth summit in the UK and the OIC summit in Iran. Hasina also visited the United States, Saudi Arabia, Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia.

Bangladesh joined two multilateral bodies, the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) and D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation (D-8). She became the first Bangladeshi prime minister since independence to complete an entire five-year term.

In the 2001 general election, despite winning 40% of the popular vote (slightly less than BNP's 41%), the AL won just 62 seats in parliament as a result of the first past-the-post electoral system, while the 'Four Party Alliance' led by BNP won 234 seats, giving them a two-thirds majority in parliament. Hasina herself ran in three constituencies,{{cite web |title=Sheikh Hasina's party wins Bangladesh election; opposition claims votes rigged |url=https://www.businesstoday.in/top-story/prime-minister-sheikh-hasina-wins-bangladesh-election--opposition-claims-votes-rigged/story/305449.html |access-date=7 November 2020 |website=www.businesstoday.in |date=31 December 2018 |archive-date=10 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201210052748/https://www.businesstoday.in/top-story/prime-minister-sheikh-hasina-wins-bangladesh-election--opposition-claims-votes-rigged/story/305449.html |url-status=live}} and was defeated in a constituency in Rangpur, which included her husband's hometown, but won in two other seats. Hasina and the AL rejected the results, claiming that the election was rigged with the assistance of the president and the caretaker government. The international community was largely satisfied with the elections, and the 'Four Party Alliance' went on to form a government.{{Cite book |last=Matin |first=Abdul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2GSgAAAAMAAJ |title=Sheikh Hasina: The Making of a Prime Minister |date=1997 |publisher=Radical Asia Publications |isbn=978-0-907546-27-6 |page=214 |language=en |access-date=4 December 2020 |archive-date=6 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106093046/https://books.google.com/books?id=2GSgAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live}}

The Awami League MPs were irregular in attending parliament during the following period.{{Cite news |date=21 August 2017 |title=Assassination Attempt on Hasina: Ten Huji men get death by shooting |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/assassination-attempt-hasina-ten-huji-men-get-death-shooting-1451581 |access-date=7 November 2020 |work=The Daily Star |language=en |archive-date=22 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822094048/https://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/assassination-attempt-hasina-ten-huji-men-get-death-shooting-1451581 |url-status=live}} In late 2003, the Awami League started its first major anti-government movement, culminating in the declaration by party general secretary Abdul Jolil that the government would fall before 30 April 2004.

{{See also|2004 Dhaka grenade attack}}

During her second term as leader of the opposition, political unrest and violence increased. MP Ahsanullah Master died after he was shot in May 2004. This was followed by a grenade attack on 21 August on an Awami League gathering in Dhaka, resulting in the death of 24 party supporters, including Ivy Rahman, party women's secretary. In October 2018, a special court gave verdicts in two cases filed over the incident; the court ruled that it was a well-orchestrated plan, executed through abuse of state power, and all the accused, including BNP Senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman (in absentia) and former top intelligence officials, were found guilty. The court prescribed various punishments.{{cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/august-21-carnage/21-august-grenade-attack-verdict-tarique-rahman-awarded-life-1645090 |title=August 21 attack: 'State-backed crime' punished |work=The Daily Star |access-date=10 October 2018 |archive-date=12 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012005216/https://www.thedailystar.net/august-21-carnage/21-august-grenade-attack-verdict-tarique-rahman-awarded-life-1645090 |url-status=live}} However, on 1 December 2024, Tarique Rahman and few others was acquitted by the high court in this case.{{cite news |title=21 August grenade attack: HC scraps verdict, acquits Tarique, Babar, other convicts |url=https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/court/21-aug-grenade-attack-high-court-acquits-all-convicts-1006751 |work=The Business Standard |date=1 December 2024 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=HC acquits Tarique, Babar, and all other accused of 21 August attack case |url=https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/01ir14khni|work=Prothom Alo |date=1 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241202021309/https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/01ir14khni |archive-date=2 December 2024 |language=en}} SAMS Kibria, Hasina's close advisor and former finance minister was assassinated that year (2004) in a grenade attack in Sylhet.{{cite news |url=http://www.en.prothom-alo.com/bangladesh/news/76277/Eleven-years-on-trial-of-21-Aug-grenade-attack |title=Eleven years on, trial of 21 Aug grenade attack still to end |work=Prothom Alo |access-date=28 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126202958/http://en.prothom-alo.com/bangladesh/news/76277/Eleven-years-on-trial-of-21-Aug-grenade-attack |archive-date=26 January 2016 |url-status=dead}}{{cite news |url=http://en.prothom-alo.com/bangladesh/news/52307/Ten-years-since-the-21-August-grenade-atta |title=10 years of 21 August grenade attack |work=Prothom Alo |access-date=28 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304022858/http://en.prothom-alo.com/bangladesh/news/52307/Ten-years-since-the-21-August-grenade-atta |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}

In June 2005, A. B. M. Mohiuddin Chowdhury, the incumbent AL Mayor, won an important election in Chittagong, the second-largest city in Bangladesh. This election was seen as a showdown between the opposition and the ruling party.{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Paul J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Um6sBwAAQBAJ&q=Attempted+assassination+of+Sheikh+Hasina+21+July+2001&pg=PA53 |title=Terrorism and Violence in Southeast Asia: Transnational Challenges to States and Regional Stability: Transnational Challenges to States and Regional Stability |date=26 March 2015 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-45887-6 |language=en |access-date=7 November 2020 |archive-date=6 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106093022/https://books.google.com/books?id=Um6sBwAAQBAJ&q=Attempted+assassination+of+Sheikh+Hasina+21+July+2001&pg=PA53 |url-status=live}}

{{see also|Logi Boitha Movement}}

In October 2006, Sheikh Hasina and Awami League launched the Logi Boitha Movement where thousands of Awami League workers started occupying different streets of Dhaka with boathooks and Oars for several days. This resulted in a number of casualties, vandalisms, lootings as well as soaring prices of daily commodities.

In May 2007, the police filed chargesheet against 19 leaders and activists of the Awami League and its affiliates for vandalising, setting fire to and looting the office of the Islamic Social Welfare Council but all of them were acquitted in court in June 2011.{{cite news |script-title=bn:লগি-বৈঠা: মামলার ১৯ আসামি খালাস |url=https://m.bdnews24.com/bn/detail/bangladesh/502038 |work=bdnews24.com |date=8 June 2011 |language=bn |access-date=31 October 2020 |archive-date=6 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201106001204/https://m.bdnews24.com/bn/detail/bangladesh/502038 |url-status=dead}}

The months preceding the planned 22 January 2007 elections were filled with political unrest and controversy.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/12/world/asia/12bangladesh.html | title=In Bangladesh, State of Emergency and Election Delay | work=The New York Times | date=12 January 2007 | last1=Sengupta | first1=Somini | access-date=4 August 2024 | archive-date=4 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804064804/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/12/world/asia/12bangladesh.html | url-status=live }} Following the end of Khaleda Zia's government in October 2006, there were protests and strikes, during which 40 people were killed in the following month, over uncertainty about who would head the Caretaker Government. The caretaker government had difficulty bringing all parties to the table. The AL and its allies protested and alleged that the caretaker government favoured the BNP.{{Cite news |title=10 Huji men to die for the attempted murder of Hasina |url=https://www.jagonews24.com/en/national/news/29272 |access-date=7 November 2020 |work=Jago News 24 |language=en-US |archive-date=12 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201212155525/https://www.jagonews24.com/en/national/news/29272 |url-status=live}}

The interim period was marred with violence and strikes.{{cite news |last=Rahman |first=Waliur |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6241263.stm |title=South Asia | Is Bangladesh heading towards disaster? |work=BBC News |date=8 January 2007 |access-date=26 August 2012 |archive-date=19 January 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080119035022/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6241263.stm |url-status=live}}{{cite news |last=Habib |first=Haroon |author-link=Haroon Habib |date=4 January 2007 |title=Polls won't be fair: Hasina |url=http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/04/stories/2007010405671400.htm |newspaper=The Hindu |access-date=30 September 2013 |archive-date=3 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103212117/http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/04/stories/2007010405671400.htm |url-status=dead}} Presidential Advisor Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury negotiated with Hasina and Khaleda Zia and brought all the parties to the planned 22 January 2007 parliamentary elections. Later the nomination of Ershad was cancelled by the returning officer of the Election Commission as Ershad had been convicted on a corruption case.{{Cite news |title=The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 922 |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2006/12/30/d6123001044.htm |access-date=20 July 2022 |work=The Daily Star |archive-date=9 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509201939/https://archive.thedailystar.net/2006/12/30/d6123001044.htm |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |title=The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 920 |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2006/12/28/d6122801033.htm |access-date=20 July 2022 |work=The Daily Star |archive-date=20 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220720150520/http://archive.thedailystar.net/2006/12/28/d6122801033.htm |url-status=live}} As a result, the Grand Alliance withdrew its candidates en masse on the last day possible. They demanded that a voters' roll be published.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

Later in the month, President Iajuddin Ahmed was compelled to declare a state of emergency. Consequently, Lt General Moeen Uddin Ahmed took control of the government.{{cite web |url=http://www.countercurrents.org/samad110608.htm |title=General Moeen Purge 1/11 Key Players in Power Struggle To Regain Supremacy |access-date=15 February 2015 |archive-date=3 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103091039/http://www.countercurrents.org/samad110608.htm |url-status=live}} Political activity was prohibited. Fakhruddin Ahmed became the chief advisor with the support of the Bangladesh Army.{{Cite news |url=https://bdnews24.com/media-en/daily-star-editor-mahfuz-anam-admits-to-publishing-dgfi-fed-baseless-stories |title=Daily Star Editor Mahfuz Anam admits to publishing DGFI-fed baseless stories |work=bdnews24.com |date=4 February 2016 |access-date=28 March 2016}}{{Cite news |url=https://bdnews24.com/politics/ministers-menon-nasim-demand-commission-to-find-111-architects |title=Ministers Menon, Nasim demand commission to find '1/11 architects' |work=bdnews24.com |date=28 February 2016 |access-date=28 March 2016}}{{Cite news |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/editor-mahfuz-anam-should-have-resigned-if-he-had-self-esteem-says-prime-minister-hasina |title=Editor Mahfuz Anam should have resigned if he had self-esteem, says Prime Minister Hasina |work=bdnews24.com |date=22 February 2016 |access-date=28 March 2016}}

Hasina went to the United States embassy on 14 March 2007 along with Kazi Zafarullah and Tareq Ahmed Siddique.{{Cite news |title=Hasina flies to US tomorrow |url=https://archive.thedailystar.net/2007/03/14/d70314013122.htm |access-date=27 October 2022 |work=The Daily Star |archive-date=27 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221027143941/https://archive.thedailystar.net/2007/03/14/d70314013122.htm |url-status=live}} She would fly the next day to the United States accompanied by Tareq Ahmed Siddique and Abdus Sobhan Golap. She visited her son and daughter who live in the United States.{{Cite news |last=Ahmed |first=Anid |date=7 May 2007 |title=Former Bangladesh PM Hasina returns from exile |language=en-CA |work=The Globe and Mail |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/former-bangladesh-pm-hasina-returns-from-exile/article1075372/ |access-date=27 October 2022 |archive-date=27 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221027143941/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/former-bangladesh-pm-hasina-returns-from-exile/article1075372/ |url-status=live}} She then moved to the United Kingdom.{{Cite news |last=Baker |first=Luke |date=22 April 2007 |title=Bangladesh's ex-PM Hasina barred from flying home |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-bangladesh-idUKL2264999220070422 |access-date=29 August 2021 |archive-date=29 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210829223725/https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-bangladesh-idUKL2264999220070422 |url-status=live}}

In April 2007, Hasina was charged with graft and extortion by the military-backed caretaker government during the 2006–2008 political crisis. She was accused of having forced businessman Tajul Islam Farooq to pay bribes in 1998 before his company could build a power plant. Farooq said that he paid Hasina for approving his project.{{cite news |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/09/asia/AS-GEN-Bangladesh-Extortion-Charge.php |title=Bangladesh police to investigate graft allegation against former PM Hasina |date=9 April 2007 |newspaper=International Herald Tribune |agency=Associated Press |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226170555/http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/09/asia/AS-GEN-Bangladesh-Extortion-Charge.php |archive-date=26 February 2008}}

On 18 April 2007, the Government barred Hasina from returning, stating that she had made provocative statements and that her return could cause disorder. This was described as a temporary measure. The Caretaker Government had also been trying to get Khaleda Zia to leave the country.{{cite news |title=Bangladeshi gov't bans former PM's return home from USA |url=http://en.people.cn/200704/18/eng20070418_367640.html |access-date=27 March 2022 |work=People's Daily |archive-date=9 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220209103302/http://en.people.cn/200704/18/eng20070418_367640.html |url-status=dead}} Hasina vowed to return home, and on 22 April 2007, a warrant was issued for her arrest for murder.{{Cite news |date=22 April 2007 |title=Bangladesh issues ex-PM warrant |language=en-GB |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6580831.stm |access-date=27 March 2022 |archive-date=9 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220209103325/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6580831.stm |url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/22/asia/AS-GEN-Bangladesh-Leaders-Return.php |title=Murder warrant issued against Bangladesh ex-leader Hasina as she prepares to return home |date=22 April 2007 |newspaper=International Herald Tribune |agency=Associated Press |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090212165307/http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/22/asia/AS-GEN-Bangladesh-Leaders-Return.php |archive-date=12 February 2009}} Describing the case against her as "totally false and fake", Hasina said that she wanted to defend herself against the charges in court. On 23 April 2007, the arrest warrant was suspended,{{cite news |url=http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/806F70E9-02FF-4478-AA91-EBFBA908A333.htm |title=Hasina: I will fight charges |date=23 April 2007 |work=Al Jazeera |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070425212916/http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/806F70E9-02FF-4478-AA91-EBFBA908A333.htm |archive-date=25 April 2007}} and on 25 April 2007, the ban on Hasina's entry was dropped.{{Cite news |date=26 April 2007 |title=Opposition welcomes B'desh U-turn |language=en-GB |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6594607.stm |access-date=27 March 2022 |archive-date=14 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114050557/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6594607.stm |url-status=live}} After spending 51 days in the United States and the United Kingdom, on 7 May 2007 Hasina returned to Dhaka, where she was greeted by a crowd of several thousand. She told reporters that the government should not have delayed her return.{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/2007/05/08/stories/2007050811720100.htm |title=Sheikh Hasina returns home |last=Habib |first=Haroon |date=7 May 2007 |author-link=Haroon Habib |access-date=30 September 2013 |archive-date=10 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110023611/http://www.hindu.com/2007/05/08/stories/2007050811720100.htm |newspaper=The Hindu |url-status=dead}}

On 16 July 2007, Hasina was arrested by police at her home and taken before a local court in Dhaka.{{Cite news |date=16 July 2007 |title=Former Bangladeshi PM arrested: reports |language=en-AU |work=ABC News |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-07-16/former-bangladeshi-pm-arrested-reports/2503992 |access-date=27 March 2022 |archive-date=22 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922235154/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-07-16/former-bangladeshi-pm-arrested-reports/2503992 |url-status=live}} She was accused of extortion and denied bail and was held in a building converted into jail on the premises of the National Parliament. The AL said the arrest was politically motivated.{{cite news |title=Security stepped up after the arrest of the ex-Bangladesh prime minister on extortion charges |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/17/asia/AS-GEN-Bangladesh-Hasina-Detained.php |newspaper=International Herald Tribune |agency=Associated Press |date=17 July 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070820214444/http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/17/asia/AS-GEN-Bangladesh-Hasina-Detained.php |archive-date=20 August 2007}} On 17 July 2007, the Anti-Corruption Commission sent notices to both Hasina and Khaleda Zia, instructing them to provide details of their assets within one week.{{cite news |title=Hasina, Khaleda given 7 days for wealth report |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2007/07/18/d7071801011.htm |access-date=27 March 2022 |date=18 July 2007 |work=The Daily Star |archive-date=9 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220209103400/http://archive.thedailystar.net/2007/07/18/d7071801011.htm |url-status=live}} Hasina's son Sajeeb Wazed was out of the country and said he would try to organise a worldwide protest. These arrests of the political leaders were widely seen as a move by the military-backed interim government to force Hasina and Zia out of the country and into political exile.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6544835.stm |title=South Asia – Ex-Bangladesh PM in murder case |work=BBC News |access-date=15 February 2015 |archive-date=22 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070922115609/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6544835.stm |url-status=live}}{{cite news |title=Bangladesh's ex-leader Sheikh Hasina barred from boarding plane home |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/22/europe/EU-GEN-Britain-Bangladesh-Leader-Barred.php |newspaper=International Herald Tribune |agency=Associated Press |date=22 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070527114019/http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/22/europe/EU-GEN-Britain-Bangladesh-Leader-Barred.php |archive-date=27 May 2007}} United Kingdom MPs condemned the arrest.{{Cite news |date=23 July 2007 |title=UK MPs denounce Bangladesh arrest |language=en-GB |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6911237.stm |access-date=27 March 2022 |archive-date=27 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220327044509/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6911237.stm |url-status=live}}

On 11 April 2007, the police filed murder charges against Hasina, alleging that she masterminded the killing in October 2006 of four supporters of a rival political party. The four alleged victims were beaten to death during clashes between the AL and rival party activists.{{cite news |url=http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DB39D98D-9402-49BB-98B8-0F7054E8A941.htm |title=Hasina charged in murder case |date=11 April 2007 |work=Al Jazeera |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070415023102/http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DB39D98D-9402-49BB-98B8-0F7054E8A941.htm |archive-date=15 April 2007}} Hasina was visiting the United States at the time.{{Cite news |date=12 April 2007 |title=B'desh's Hasina to stay abroad pending murder charge |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bangladesh-idUSSP23714720070412 |access-date=27 March 2022 |archive-date=27 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220327044506/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bangladesh-idUSSP23714720070412 |url-status=live}}

On 30 July 2007, the High Court suspended Hasina's extortion trial and ordered her release on bail.{{Cite magazine |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/newswire/story/high-court-grants-hasina-bail-suspends-trial/491991 |title=High Court grants Hasina bail, suspends trial |magazine=Outlook |access-date=28 March 2016 |archive-date=12 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412043101/http://www.outlookindia.com/newswire/story/high-court-grants-hasina-bail-suspends-trial/491991 |url-status=live}} On 2 September 2007, an additional case was filed against Hasina by the Anti-Corruption Commission regarding the awarding of a contract for the construction of a power plant in 1997, for which she allegedly took a bribe of 30 million takas and kept the contract from going to the lowest bidder. Six others were also accused of involvement.{{cite news |title=Ex-PM sued on corruption charges in Bangladesh |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/02/asia/AS-GEN-Bangladesh-Ex-Prime-Minister.php |newspaper=International Herald Tribune |agency=Associated Press |date=2 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080601074635/http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/02/asia/AS-GEN-Bangladesh-Ex-Prime-Minister.php |archive-date=1 June 2008}}[http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2007-09-03/rest-of-world/27988420_1_graft-dhaka-court-prime-minister-sheikh-hasina "Detained ex-PM of Bangladesh faces new graft charges"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140110131807/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2007-09-03/rest-of-world/27988420_1_graft-dhaka-court-prime-minister-sheikh-hasina |date=10 January 2014 }}, The Times of India, 3 September 2007. A graft case was filed against Zia on the same day.

On 13 January 2008, Hasina was indicted on extortion charges by a special court along with two of her relatives, her sister Sheikh Rehana and her cousin Sheikh Selim.{{cite news |title=Bangladesh court indicts Hasina, two others in extortion case |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-01-13/rest-of-world/27778783_1_azam-j-chowdhury-extortion-case-sheikh-rehana |date=13 January 2008 |access-date=30 September 2013 |archive-date=10 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140110130654/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-01-13/rest-of-world/27778783_1_azam-j-chowdhury-extortion-case-sheikh-rehana |work=The Times of India |url-status=dead}} On 6 February, the High Court stopped the trial, ruling that she could not be prosecuted under emergency laws for crimes alleged to have been committed prior to the imposition of the state of emergency.{{cite news |title=Bangladesh court quashes Hasina's trial |url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200802061550.htm |work=The Hindu |date=6 February 2008 |access-date=30 September 2013 |archive-date=10 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110023617/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200802061550.htm |url-status=live}}

On 11 June 2008, Hasina was released on parole for medical reasons. The next day she flew to the United States to be treated for hearing impairment, eye problems and high blood pressure.{{cite news |last=Herman |first=Steve |title=Bangladesh Caretaker Government Frees Former PM Hasina |url=http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-06-11-voa8.cfm |work=Voice of America |date=11 June 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080710085202/http://voanews.com/english/2008-06-11-voa8.cfm |archive-date=10 July 2008 |url-status=dead}}{{cite news |url=http://www.gulfnews.com/World/Bangladesh/10220470.html |title=Sheikh Hasina goes to US for medical treatment |work=Gulf News |access-date=15 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211174956/http://www.gulfnews.com/World/Bangladesh/10220470.html |archive-date=11 February 2009}} Syed Modasser Ali, her personal physician, threatened to sue the caretaker government over negligence regarding Hasina's treatment during her detention.{{cite news |title=Hasina wants to return end of Sept: doctor |url=https://bdnews24.com/politics/hasina-wants-to-return-end-of-sept-doctor |newspaper=bdnews24.com |date=17 August 2008 |access-date=21 August 2008}}

The caretaker government held mayoral elections in which AL won 12 out of 13 elections. The government extended her two-month medical parole by one more month.{{Cite magazine |date=7 August 2008 |title=Sheikh Hasina's happy day; Bangladesh |url=https://www.economist.com/asia/2008/08/07/sheikh-hasinas-happy-day |magazine=The Economist |archive-date=26 September 2020 |access-date=21 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926193830/https://www.economist.com/asia/2008/08/07/sheikh-hasinas-happy-day |url-status=live}}

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{{see also|Second Hasina ministry}}

File:Sheikh Hasina with David Cameron.jpg at 10 Downing Street (January 2011)]]

On 6 November 2008, Hasina returned to Bangladesh to contest the 2008 general election scheduled for 29 December.{{cite news |last=Pasricha |first=Anjana |date=6 November 2008 |title=Sheikh Hasina Returns to Lead Her Party in Bangladesh |url=http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-11-06-voa23.cfm |work=VOA News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081110090007/http://voanews.com/english/2008-11-06-voa23.cfm |archive-date=10 November 2008 |url-status=dead}} She decided to participate in the parliamentary election under the banner of the "Grand Alliance" with the Jatiya Party, led by Hussain Muhammad Ershad, as its main partner. On 11 December 2008, Hasina formally announced her party's election manifesto during a news conference and vowed to build a "Digital Bangladesh" by 2021.{{Cite news |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-68943 |title=Hasina plays on people's expectation for a change |newspaper=The Daily Star |access-date=28 March 2016 |archive-date=8 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408011541/http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-68943 |url-status=live}}

The AL manifesto was entitled A Charter for Change and included the party's commitment to Vision 2021. The manifesto included pledges to implement measures to reduce price hikes; combat corruption by strengthening the independent ACC and submission of annual wealth statements by influential people; introduction of a long-term policy towards power and energy increasing power generation to 7,000 megawatts by 2013; bringing vibrancy to the agriculture sector and extending the safety net to the poor; creating good governance and curtailing terrorism and religious extremism; prosecution of 1971 war criminals; ensuring an independent and impartial judiciary; reforming the electoral system; strengthening the Human Rights Commission and de-politicising the administration.

Her Awami League and the Grand Alliance (a total of 14 parties) won the 2008 general election with a two-thirds majority, having won 230 out of 299 seats.{{Cite news |date=30 December 2008 |title=Hasina wins Bangladesh landslide |language=en-GB |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7803785.stm |access-date=27 March 2022 |archive-date=16 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090216215840/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7803785.stm |url-status=live}} Khaleda Zia, leader of the BNP-led coalition (4-Party Alliance), rejected the results of the election by accusing the Chief Election Commissioner of "stage-managing the parliamentary election".{{cite web |url=http://www.samaylive.com/news/khaleda-zia-rejects-bdesh-election-result/602947.html |title=चण्डीगढ़,पंजाब और हरियाणा में घना कोहरा छा |publisher=Samay Live |date=10 January 2010 |language=hi |access-date=26 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401090546/http://www.samaylive.com/news/khaleda-zia-rejects-bdesh-election-result/602947.html |archive-date=1 April 2012 |url-status=dead}} Hasina was sworn into office as prime minister for a second term on 6 January 2009. Independent observers declared that the elections were held in a festive and peaceful atmosphere.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/world/asia/30bangladesh.html |title=Secular Party Wins in Bangladesh |last1=Sengupta |first1=Somini |date=29 December 2008 |work=The New York Times |access-date=8 February 2019 |last2=Manik |first2=Julfikar Ali |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=9 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124851/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/world/asia/30bangladesh.html |url-status=live}}

After being elected prime minister, Hasina reneged on her agreement with the Jatiya Party to make Ershad, its leader, the president.{{cite news |url=http://banglanews24.com/detailsnews.php?nssl=5c0b22ae24d0082d80a0d52feb219798&nttl=22082012134014 |script-title=bn:এরশাদের ভারতপ্রেম রাজনীতিতে নতুন ছক! |work=Banglanews24 |date=22 August 2012 |language=bn |access-date=26 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140110130004/http://www.banglanews24.com/detailsnews.php?nssl=5c0b22ae24d0082d80a0d52feb219798&nttl=22082012134014 |archive-date=10 January 2014}}

Hasina removed Awami League central committee members who supported reforms forced by the previous caretaker government.{{cite magazine |date=10 August 2009 |title=Sheikh Hasina flexes her muscles |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1824562351.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627062235/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1824562351.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 June 2018 |magazine=Dhaka Courier }} She had to confront a major national crisis in the form of the 2009 Bangladesh Rifles revolt over a pay dispute, which resulted in 56 deaths, including Bangladesh Army officers.{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/feb/28/bangladesh-soldiers-rebellion-mutiny |title=Bangladeshi army officers' bodies found as death toll from mutiny rises to more than 75 |last1=Ramesh |first1=Randeep |date=28 February 2009 |work=The Guardian |access-date=8 February 2019 |last2=Monsur |first2=Maloti |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=9 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124407/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/feb/28/bangladesh-soldiers-rebellion-mutiny |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/world/asia/14bangla.html |title=Bangladeshi Premier Faces a Grim Crucible |last=Sengupta |first=Somini |date=13 March 2009 |work=The New York Times |access-date=8 February 2019 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=9 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209130136/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/world/asia/14bangla.html |url-status=live}} Hasina was blamed by the army officers due to her refusal to intervene against the revolt.{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-201558 |title=Hasina showed character |date=8 September 2011 |access-date=21 February 2023 |work=The Daily Star |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230221012054/https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-201558 |archive-date=21 February 2023 |url-status=live}}{{Cite magazine |url=https://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1882554,00.html |title=After the Mutiny, Questions About Bangladesh's Army |date=2 March 2009 |access-date=21 February 2023 |magazine=Time |last=Sobhan |first=Zafar |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230221012347/https://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1882554,00.html |archive-date=21 February 2023 |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/feb/28/bangladesh-soldiers-rebellion-mutiny |title=Bangladeshi army officers' bodies found as death toll from rebellion rises |date=28 February 2009 |access-date=21 February 2023 |work=The Guardian |last1=Ramesh |first1=Randeep |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230221012705/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/feb/28/bangladesh-soldiers-rebellion-mutiny |archive-date=21 February 2023 |url-status=live |last2=Monsur |first2=Maloti}} However, In 2009, a recording emerged of Hasina's private meeting with army officers, who expressed their anger with how she had not reacted more decisively in the revolt's early stages, by ordering an armed raid of the BDR Rifles compound; they believed that her efforts to appease the revolt's leaders delayed needed action which led to more deaths.{{cite news |last1=Khan |first1=Urmee |last2=Nelson |first2=Dean |title=Bangladeshi army officers blame prime minister for mutiny |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bangladesh/4982518/Bangladeshi-army-officers-blame-prime-minister-for-mutiny.html |access-date=26 December 2022 |work=www.telegraph.co.uk |archive-date=9 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124251/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bangladesh/4982518/Bangladeshi-army-officers-blame-prime-minister-for-mutiny.html |url-status=live}} In a 2011 The Daily Star editorial, she was commended for "her sagacious handling of the situation which resulted in the prevention of a further bloodbath". In 2011, the parliament removed the law that required non-party caretaker government hold elections.{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-13973576 |title=Bangladesh ends 'caretaker' polls |work=BBC News |date=30 June 2011 |access-date=8 February 2019 |archive-date=9 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209134131/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-13973576 |url-status=live}} In 2012, she maintained a hard-line stance and refused to allow entry to Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar during the 2012 Rakhine State riots.{{YouTube|0IF_wu4dxUk|PM says Bangladesh cannot help Rohingya}}

File:Russia-Bangladeshi talks Moscow 2013-01-15 11.jpeg at the Kremlin in January 2013]]

On 27 June 2013, a case against Hasina and 24 other Bangladeshi Ministers and security personnel was lodged at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the alleged violation of human rights.{{cite news |title=Complaint lodged at ICC accusing Hasina, 24 others |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/uncategorized/2013/06/29/complaint-lodged-at-icc-accusing-hasina-24-others |newspaper=Dhaka Tribune |date=29 June 2013 |access-date=7 January 2017 |archive-date=12 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201212003600/https://www.dhakatribune.com/uncategorized/2013/06/29/complaint-lodged-at-icc-accusing-hasina-24-others |url-status=live}} She has been "credited internationally" for the achievement of some of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.{{cite news |last1=Tisdall |first1=Simon |last2=Ridout |first2=Anna |date=21 September 2015 |title=Bangladesh's PM rejects claims of repression: 'I do politics for the people' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/21/bangladesh-prime-minister-rejects-accusations-of-authoritarian-rule |newspaper=The Guardian |issn=0261-3077 |access-date=28 March 2016 |archive-date=18 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318135016/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/21/bangladesh-prime-minister-rejects-accusations-of-authoritarian-rule |url-status=live}} In 2012 a coup attempt against her by mid-ranking army officers was stopped, with the Bangladesh Army being tipped off by an Indian intelligence agency.{{cite magazine |last=Samad |first=Saleem |date=28 January 2012 |title=Dhaka Conspiracy |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/bangladesh-coup-bid-against-sheikh-hasina-foiled/1/170876.html |url-status=live |magazine=India Today |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170530024231/http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/bangladesh-coup-bid-against-sheikh-hasina-foiled/1/170876.html |archive-date=30 May 2017 |access-date=3 June 2017}} The Bangladesh Army described the army officers involved as being Islamist extremists.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/world/asia/bangladesh-army-claims-to-thwart-coup-attempt.html |title=Bangladesh Army Claims to Thwart Coup Attempt |last1=Gottipati |first1=Sruthi |date=19 January 2012 |work=The New York Times |access-date=8 February 2019 |last2=Kumar |first2=Hari |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=9 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209130126/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/world/asia/bangladesh-army-claims-to-thwart-coup-attempt.html |url-status=live}}

In 2012, she had a falling out with Muhammad Yunus, Nobel laureate and founder of Grameen Bank, following a Norwegian documentary that was critical of Yunus's transferring of money from Grameen Bank to an affiliate organisation. Yunus transferred the money back after the documentary aired but it increased scrutiny of the bank by the government and media in Bangladesh. Yunus lost control of his bank following a court verdict. He criticised Hasina and other Bangladeshi politicians. She responded by saying she did not understand why Yunus blamed her when it was a court verdict that removed him from Grameen Bank.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/world/asia/grandmotherly-bangladesh-leader-unfazed-by-problems-at-home.html |title=Grandmotherly Bangladesh Leader Unfazed by Problems at Home |last=Gladstone |first=Rick |date=23 September 2011 |work=The New York Times |access-date=8 February 2019 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=9 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124022/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/world/asia/grandmotherly-bangladesh-leader-unfazed-by-problems-at-home.html |url-status=live}}

During this term, her government led and succeeded in forming the International Crimes Tribunal, to investigate and prosecute suspects involved in the Bangladesh Genocide, committed by the Pakistan Army and their local collaborators, Razakars, Al-Badr, and Al-Shams during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.{{Cite news |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/court/2017/09/19/reform-international-crimes-tribunal |title=Reform in International Crimes Tribunal soon |date=18 September 2017 |work=Dhaka Tribune |access-date=8 February 2019 |archive-date=9 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209125237/https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/court/2017/09/19/reform-international-crimes-tribunal |url-status=live}}

{{See also|Third Hasina ministry}}

File:The Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Ms. Sheikh Hasina meeting the President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on August 19, 2015.jpg after the death of First Lady Suvra Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi in 2015. Hasina is personally close to the Mukherjee family since their caretaking during her 1975–'81 exile in India.]]

Hasina secured a second-consecutive term in office with her ruling Awami League and its Grand Alliance allies, winning the 2014 general election by a landslide. The election was boycotted by leading opposition parties due to unfair conditions and a lack of non-partisan administration to conduct elections.{{cite news |title=Bangladesh: Ruling Awami League wins election marred by boycott and violence |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bangladeshs-ruling-awami-league-wins-election-marred-by-boycott-and-violence-9041436.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bangladeshs-ruling-awami-league-wins-election-marred-by-boycott-and-violence-9041436.html |archive-date=1 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |newspaper=The Independent |location=London |date=6 January 2014 |access-date=11 March 2022}}{{cbignore}} As a result, the AL-led Grand Alliance won 267 seats out of which 153 were uncontested, surpassing its 2008 poll success—when it secured 263 parliamentary seats.{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46718393 |title=Bangladesh PM wins landslide election |work=BBC News |date=31 December 2018 |access-date=8 August 2019 |archive-date=5 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105234147/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46718393 |url-status=live}} Sheikh Hasina's Awami League has run Bangladesh since 2009 and won 288 seats in this election.{{Cite news |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-01/bangladesh-ruling-coalition-declared-winner-of-disputed-vote/10676404 |title=Bangladesh's ruling alliance wins almost every seat amid claims of intimidation |date=1 January 2019 |work=ABC News |access-date=8 August 2019 |archive-date=21 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190421074418/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-01/bangladesh-ruling-coalition-declared-winner-of-disputed-vote/10676404 |url-status=live}} One of the leading opposition parties accused it of using stuffed ballot boxes. The election was boycotted by major opposition parties including the BNP.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/world/asia/bangladesh-election.html | title=Opposition Party Boycotting Bangladesh Election | work=The New York Times | date=5 January 2014 | last1=Barry | first1=Ellen | access-date=4 August 2024 | archive-date=28 December 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201228012029/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/world/asia/bangladesh-election.html | url-status=live }}

The election was controversial, with reports of violence and an alleged crackdown on the opposition in the run-up to the election. In the election 153 seats (of 300) went uncontested, of which the Awami League won 127 by default.{{cite news |url=http://thecommonwealth.org/our-member-countries/bangladesh/constitution-politics |title=Bangladesh: Constitution and politics |website=The Commonwealth |access-date=8 August 2019 |archive-date=4 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190804001006/http://thecommonwealth.org/our-member-countries/bangladesh/constitution-politics |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.e-ir.info/2014/02/02/elections-in-bangladesh-political-conflict-and-the-problem-of-credibility/ |title=Elections in Bangladesh: Political Conflict and the Problem of Credibility |website=E-International Relations |date=2 February 2014 |access-date=8 August 2019 |archive-date=8 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808114324/https://www.e-ir.info/2014/02/02/elections-in-bangladesh-political-conflict-and-the-problem-of-credibility/ |url-status=live}} Hasina's Awami League won a safe parliamentary majority with a total of 234 seats.{{Cite news |url=https://www.observerbd.com/details.php?id=176500 |title=Sheikh Hasina fourth time Prime Minister – Front Page |work=The Daily Observer |access-date=8 August 2019 |archive-date=3 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190203063843/http://www.observerbd.com/details.php?id=176500 |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/bangladesh-national-election-2018/bangladesh-past-general-elections-stats-and-fact-box-1680232 |title=Election Special: PAST ELECTIONS FACT BOX |date=29 December 2018 |work=The Daily Star |access-date=8 August 2019 |archive-date=8 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808123745/https://www.thedailystar.net/bangladesh-national-election-2018/bangladesh-past-general-elections-stats-and-fact-box-1680232 |url-status=live}} As a result of the boycott and violence, voter turnout was lower than the previous few elections at only 51%. The day after the result, Hasina said that the boycott should "not mean there will be a question of legitimacy.{{cite web |url=http://aceproject.org/electoral-advice/archive/questions/replies/648740562 |title=Role of election boycotts in a democracy — |website=aceproject.org |access-date=2019-08-08 |archive-date=8 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808123734/http://aceproject.org/electoral-advice/archive/questions/replies/648740562 |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-25602436 |title=Clashes in boycotted Bangladesh poll |date=2014-01-05 |access-date=2019-08-08 |archive-date=22 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422084053/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-25602436 |url-status=live}} People participated in the poll and other parties participated." Despite the controversy Hasina went on to form a government with Ershad's Jatiya Party (who won 34 seats) as the official opposition.{{Cite news |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/election/2018/11/25/awami-league-to-offer-36-seats-to-jatiya-party |title=Awami League to offer 36 seats to Jatiya Party |date=25 November 2018 |work=Dhaka Tribune |access-date=8 August 2019 |archive-date=8 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808123734/https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/election/2018/11/25/awami-league-to-offer-36-seats-to-jatiya-party |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/news/falling-short-five-seats-1681849 |title=Falling short by five seats |date=2 January 2019 |work=The Daily Star |access-date=8 August 2019 |archive-date=8 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808123733/https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/news/falling-short-five-seats-1681849 |url-status=live}}

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The BNP wanted the elections to be held under a neutral caretaker government and had hoped to use protests to force the government to do so.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/world/asia/matriarchs-duel-for-power-threatens-to-tilt-bangladesh-off-balance.html |title=Matriarchs' Duel for Power Threatens to Tilt Bangladesh Off Balance |last=Barry |first=Ellen |date=11 January 2014 |work=The New York Times |access-date=8 February 2019 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=9 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209125013/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/world/asia/matriarchs-duel-for-power-threatens-to-tilt-bangladesh-off-balance.html |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/01/bangladesh-elections-hanging-thread-201413105638185296.html |title=Bangladesh elections: Hanging by a thread |work=Al Jazeera |access-date=8 February 2019 |archive-date=9 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124238/https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/01/bangladesh-elections-hanging-thread-201413105638185296.html |url-status=live}}

The period also saw increasing attacks by Islamic extremists in the country, including the July 2016 Dhaka attack which has been described as "deadliest Islamist attack in Bangladeshi history" by BBC.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50570243 |title=Holey Artisan cafe: Bangladesh Islamists sentenced to death for 2016 attack |work=BBC News |date=27 November 2019 |access-date=29 October 2022 |quote=The 12-hour siege was Bangladesh's deadliest Islamist attack. Most of the victims were Italian or Japanese. |archive-date=27 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191127133047/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50570243 |url-status=live}} According to experts, the Hasina-led government's repression of political opposition as well as shrinking democratic and civic space has created "the space for extremist groups to flourish" and "has generated a violent backlash from Islamist groups."{{cite web |last1=Herbert |first1=Siân |title=Conflict analysis of Bangladesh |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/323960655.pdf |publisher=K4D |access-date=9 December 2022 |archive-date=9 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209234408/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/323960655.pdf |url-status=live}}

In March 2017, Bangladesh's first two submarines were commissioned.{{cite news |title=Bangladesh's first 2 submarines commissioned |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/country/bangladeshs-first-two-submarines-commissioned-1374724 |work=The Daily Star |date=12 March 2017 |access-date=13 September 2017 |archive-date=12 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312090121/http://www.thedailystar.net/country/bangladeshs-first-two-submarines-commissioned-1374724 |url-status=live}} In September 2017, Hasina's government granted refuge and aid to around a million Rohingya refugees and urged Myanmar to end violence against the Rohingya community.{{cite news |date=13 September 2017 |title=Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina visits Rohingya refugees, assures help |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/world/bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-visits-rohingya-refugees-assures-help-4841057/ |access-date=27 March 2022 |work=The Indian Express |language=en |archive-date=14 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914125202/http://indianexpress.com/article/world/bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-visits-rohingya-refugees-assures-help-4841057/ |url-status=live}} The majority of the Bangladeshi people supported the government's decision to provide refugee status to the Rohingya. Hasina received credit and praise for her actions.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/opinion/rohingya-bangladesh-myanmar.html |title=How the Rohingya Crisis Is Changing Bangladesh |last=Joehnk |first=Tom Felix |date=6 October 2017 |work=The New York Times |access-date=8 February 2019 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=9 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209125005/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/opinion/rohingya-bangladesh-myanmar.html |url-status=live}}

Hasina supported calls to remove the Statue of Justice in front of the Supreme Court. This was seen as the government bowing down to the pressure of those who use religion for political ends.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/26/lady-justice-statue-bangladesh-removed-islamist-objections |title=Lady Justice statue in Bangladesh is removed after Islamist objections |first=Michael |last=Safi |date=26 May 2017 |work=The Guardian |access-date=28 January 2019 |archive-date=28 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201228012027/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/26/lady-justice-statue-bangladesh-removed-islamist-objections |url-status=live}}

Hasina is a patron of the Asian University for Women, led by Chancellor Cherie Blair, and including the First Lady of Japan, Akie Abe, as well as Irina Bokova, the Director-General of UNESCO.{{cite web |title=Educating girls and women is the best way to fight poverty and build peace |url=http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/educating_girls_and_women_is_the_best_way_to_fight_poverty/ |publisher=UNESCO |access-date=27 July 2017 |archive-date=7 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170907041547/http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/educating_girls_and_women_is_the_best_way_to_fight_poverty/ |url-status=live}}

{{See also|Fourth Hasina ministry}}

Hasina won her third consecutive term, her fourth overall, when her Awami League won 288 of the 300 parliamentary seats. The leader of the main opposition alliance, Kamal Hossain, declared the vote "farcical" and rejected the results. Before the election, Human Rights Watch and other rights organisations had accused the government of creating an intimidating environment for the Opposition.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/world/asia/bangladesh-election-sheikh-hasina-contested.html |title=Bangladesh's Leader Wins a Third Term but Opposition Contests Results |last1=Manik |first1=Julfikar Ali |date=31 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |access-date=8 February 2019 |last2=Abi-Habib |first2=Maria |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=9 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124735/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/world/asia/bangladesh-election-sheikh-hasina-contested.html |url-status=live}} The New York Times editorial board described the election as farcical, the editorial stated that it was likely Hasina would have won without vote-rigging and questioned why she did so.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/opinion/editorials/bangladesh-election-sheikh-hasina.html |title=Bangladesh's Farcical Vote |author=The Editorial Board |date=14 January 2019 |work=The New York Times |access-date=8 February 2019 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=9 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124520/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/opinion/editorials/bangladesh-election-sheikh-hasina.html |url-status=live}}

The BNP, the main opposition party that has been out of power for 12 years and boycotted the 2014 general election, fared extremely poorly. Winning only eight seats, the party and its Jatiya Oikya Front alliance have been marginalised to the weakest opposition ever since Bangladesh's post-Ershad democratic restoration in 1991.{{Cite news |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/election/2018/12/30/11th-general-election-awami-league-takes-massive-lead-as-vote-counting-continues |title=Awami League wins five more years |date=30 December 2018 |work=Dhaka Tribune |access-date=8 August 2019 |archive-date=8 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808114322/https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/election/2018/12/30/11th-general-election-awami-league-takes-massive-lead-as-vote-counting-continues |url-status=live}}

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In May 2021, Hasina provided the inaugural address for the opening of a new headquarters for the Bangladesh Post Office, named the Dak Bhaban. In her address, Hasina urged for further development of the postal service in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh. Developmental measures outlined in the address include continuing the service's digital transformation, and the construction of cooling units in postal warehouses to pave the way for the sending of perishable food by mail.{{cite news |title=PM Hasina urges postal department to start online business |work=Dhaka Tribune |date=27 May 2021 |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2021/05/27/pm-opens-newly-constructed-dak-bhaban-for-directorate-of-posts |access-date=28 May 2021 |archive-date=27 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210527065047/https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2021/05/27/pm-opens-newly-constructed-dak-bhaban-for-directorate-of-posts |url-status=live}}

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In January 2022, the government passed a law in the Jatiya Sangsad establishing the Universal Pension Scheme. All Bangladeshi citizens, including expatriates, between 18 and 60 years old are eligible to receive a monthly stipend under the scheme.{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/business/economy/news/universal-pension-scheme-what-it-and-how-it-will-work-3234871 |title=Universal pension scheme: What it is and how it will work |date=31 January 2023 |access-date=10 March 2023 |work=The Daily Star |last=Zaman |first=Md Asaduz |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230310034233/https://www.thedailystar.net/business/economy/news/universal-pension-scheme-what-it-and-how-it-will-work-3234871 |archive-date=10 March 2023 |url-status=live}}

By the end of fiscal year 2021–22, Bangladesh's external debt reached $95.86 billion, a 238% increase from 2011.{{cite news |title=Bangladesh's foreign debt more than triples in 10 years |url=https://www.tbsnews.net/economy/bangladeshs-foreign-debt-more-triples-10-years-547358 |access-date=9 December 2022 |work=The Business Standard |date=7 December 2022 |language=en |archive-date=8 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208173812/https://www.tbsnews.net/economy/bangladeshs-foreign-debt-more-triples-10-years-547358 |url-status=live}} The period is also marked by massive irregularities in the banking sector of the country where the amount of default loans went from less than {{BDTConvert|23000|c}} in 2009{{cite news |title=Defaulted loans rise by 417pc since 2009: study |url=https://www.newagebd.net/article/116978/defaulted-loans-rise-by-417pc-since-2009-study |access-date=16 December 2022 |work=New Age |language=en |archive-date=16 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216224053/https://www.newagebd.net/article/116978/defaulted-loans-rise-by-417pc-since-2009-study |url-status=live}} to more than {{BDTConvert|250000|c}} in 2019 according to IMF.{{cite news |last1=Taleb |first1=Sheikh Abu |title=Default loans in Bangladesh's banks keep swelling |url=https://bdnews24.com/economy/66uoc4iqzd |access-date=16 December 2022 |work=bdnews24.com |language=en |archive-date=16 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216224050/https://bdnews24.com/economy/66uoc4iqzd#:~:text=After%20the%20situation%20started%20to,what%20Bangladesh%20Bank%20data%20showed. |url-status=live}}

In July 2022, the Finance Ministry requested fiscal assistance from the International Monetary Fund. The government cited depleting foreign-exchange reserves as a result of the sanctions in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A staff level agreement was reached in November 2022 and in January 2023, the IMF agreed to supply a support programme totalling US$4.7 billion, consisting of US$3.3 billion under the Extended Credit Facility and US$1.4 billion under the new Resilience and Sustainability Facility. The IMF stated support package "will help preserve macroeconomic stability, protect the vulnerable and foster inclusive and green growth."{{Cite news |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/economy/2023/03/04/cash-strapped-countries-face-imf-bailout-delays |title=IMF board approves $4.7 billion support program for Bangladesh |date=31 January 2023 |access-date=12 March 2023 |work=Dhaka Tribune |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230312160416/https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2023/01/31/imf-board-approves-47-billion-support-program-for-bangladesh |archive-date=12 March 2023 |url-status=live}}

In December 2022, anti-government protests broke out, linked to the rising costs, demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister.{{Cite news |last1=Sud |first1=Vedika |last2=Xiong |first2=Yong |date=11 December 2022 |title=Tens of thousands protest in Bangladesh to demand resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/11/asia/bangladesh-protests-prime-minister-sheikh-hasina-intl-hnk/index.html |access-date=11 December 2022 |work=CNN |language=en |archive-date=11 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221211221037/https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/11/asia/bangladesh-protests-prime-minister-sheikh-hasina-intl-hnk/index.html |url-status=live}}

On 28 December, Hasina opened the first phase of Dhaka Metro Rail, the country's first mass-rapid transit system from Uttara to Agargaon.{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/special-events/dhaka-metro-rail-opening/news/pm-opens-countrys-first-metro-rail-3207081 |title=PM opens country's first metro rail |date=28 December 2022 |access-date=10 March 2023 |work=The Daily Star |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230115043453/https://www.thedailystar.net/special-events/dhaka-metro-rail-opening/news/pm-opens-countrys-first-metro-rail-3207081 |archive-date=15 January 2023 |url-status=live}}

File:Sheikh Hasina in 2023.jpg, Gopalganj in February 2023]]

During the 2023 G20 New Delhi summit, Hasina had a bilateral meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss diversifying India-Bangladesh cooperation, including areas like connectivity and commercial linkages.{{cite news |date=8 September 2023 |title=PM Modi, Sheikh Hasina hold talks on diversifying India-Bangladesh cooperation |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pm-modi-sheikh-hasina-hold-talks-on-diversifying-india-bangladesh-cooperation/article67286336.ece |work=The Hindu |access-date=11 September 2023 |archive-date=9 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230909165529/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pm-modi-sheikh-hasina-hold-talks-on-diversifying-india-bangladesh-cooperation/article67286336.ece |url-status=live }} She was accompanied by her daughter Saima Wazed, who is a candidate for a WHO election.{{cite news |date=8 September 2023 |title=Sheikh Hasina daughter, candidate for WHO election, likely to join mother during G20 summit |url=https://www.deccanherald.com/india/sheikh-hasina-daughter-candidate-for-who-election-likely-to-join-mother-during-g20-summit-2677859 |work=Deccan Herald |access-date=11 September 2023 |archive-date=8 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230908135743/https://www.deccanherald.com/india/sheikh-hasina-daughter-candidate-for-who-election-likely-to-join-mother-during-g20-summit-2677859 |url-status=live }} The summit also provided an opportunity for Hasina to meet other global leaders and strengthen Bangladesh's bilateral ties.{{cite web |date=8 September 2023 |title=PM to hold three bilateral meetings with Mauritius PM, Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina and US President at his residence in New Delhi |url=https://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/news_updates/pm-to-hold-three-bilateral-meetings-with-mauritius-pm-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-and-us-president-at-his-residence-in-new-delhi/ |publisher=PM India |access-date=11 September 2023 |archive-date=3 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231003054554/https://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/news_updates/pm-to-hold-three-bilateral-meetings-with-mauritius-pm-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-and-us-president-at-his-residence-in-new-delhi/ |url-status=live }}

{{See also|Fifth Hasina ministry|Student–People's uprising}}

File:Hasina and Ilham in Munich 2024.jpg Ilham Aliyev at the 60th Munich Security Conference in 2024]]

In January 2024 Hasina won her fourth consecutive term when her party, the Awami League, won 224 of the 300 parliamentary seats amidst a low voter turnout in an election boycotted by the main opposition.{{cite news |title=Sheikh Hasina: Once Bangladesh's democracy icon, now its 'authoritarian' PM |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/8/sheikh-hasina-once-bangladeshs-democracy-icon-now-its-authoritarian-pm |work=Al Jazeera English |date=8 January 2024 |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=7 January 2024 |title=Bangladesh election: PM Sheikh Hasina wins fourth term in controversial vote |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67889387 |access-date=5 August 2024 |language=en-GB|work=BBC News |archive-date=7 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240107212214/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67889387 |url-status=live }} She was inaugurated on 11 January.{{cite news |title=Hasina sworn in as PM for fifth term |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/hasina-sworn-pm-fifth-term-3516871 |access-date=11 January 2024 |work=The Daily Star}}{{cite news |author1=Ali Asif Shawon |title=Sheikh Hasina sworn in for historic 5th term |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/government-affairs/336508/sheikh-hasina-sworn-in-as-prime-minister |access-date=11 January 2024 |work=Dhaka Tribune}}

In May 2024, Sheikh Hasina claimed that a "white country" was plotting to topple her government and claimed that she would be promised trouble-free elections in January if she allowed a "white country" to set up an airbase in Bangladesh. She also alleged that there was a conspiracy to create a Christian country on the lines of East Timor and Myanmar.{{cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/plot-afoot-new-state-carved-out-bangladesh-myanmar-3617251|title=Plot afoot for new state carved out of Bangladesh, Myanmar|date=24 May 2024|newspaper=The Daily Star|access-date=12 August 2024|archive-date=12 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812030452/https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/plot-afoot-new-state-carved-out-bangladesh-myanmar-3617251|url-status=live}}

File:The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi and the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Smt. Sheikh Hasina arrived at Hyderabad House, in New Delhi on June 22, 2024 (1).jpg in New Delhi in June 2024, just more than a month before her ouster.]]

In June 2024, the prime minister Hasina had visited India.{{cite magazine | last=Rizve | first=Saqlain | title=Bangladesh's Tough Tightrope Walk Between India and China | magazine=The Diplomat | date=2024-07-17 | url=https://thediplomat.com/2024/07/bangladeshs-tough-tightrope-walk-between-india-and-china/ | access-date=2024-07-18 | archive-date=12 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812083601/https://thediplomat.com/2024/07/bangladeshs-tough-tightrope-walk-between-india-and-china/ | url-status=live }} In July 2024, at the invitation of the premier of China Li Qiang, Sheikh Hasina paid an official visit to China.{{cite news | last=Kanunjna | first=Anupam Deb | title=Bangladesh PM visits Beijing as China, India eye influence | work=Deutsche Welle | date=2024-07-08 | url=https://www.dw.com/en/bangladesh-pm-visits-beijing-as-china-india-eye-influence/a-69598222 | access-date=2024-07-18 | archive-date=14 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240814020750/https://www.dw.com/en/bangladesh-pm-visits-beijing-as-china-india-eye-influence/a-69598222 | url-status=live }} As she visited India a month ago, this visit to China is also seen as her attempt to seek opportunities to mediate between China and India.{{cite news | title=Bangladesh prefers India over China in $1 billion river project | work=The Economic Times | date=2024-07-15 | url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/bangladesh-prefers-india-over-china-in-1-billion-river-project/articleshow/111751142.cms?from=mdr | access-date=2024-07-18 | archive-date=18 July 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240718162433/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/bangladesh-prefers-india-over-china-in-1-billion-river-project/articleshow/111751142.cms?from=mdr | url-status=live }}{{cite news | title=Days After India Visit, Bangladesh PM In China To Hold Talks With Xi Jinping | work=NDTV | date=2019-02-22 | url=https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/days-after-india-visit-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-in-china-to-hold-talks-with-xi-jinping-li-qiang-6072228 | access-date=2024-07-18 | archive-date=18 July 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240718162433/https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/days-after-india-visit-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-in-china-to-hold-talks-with-xi-jinping-li-qiang-6072228 | url-status=live }}

In the same month of Hasina's state visit to China, protests broke out in support of reforming the quota system.{{cite news |last1=Hasnat |first1=Saif |date=11 July 2024 |title=Tens of Thousands of Students Protest Job Quotas in Bangladesh's Streets |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/world/asia/bandladesh-student-protests-job-quotas.html |url-access= |access-date=15 July 2024 |work=The New York Times |archive-date=15 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240715023641/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/world/asia/bandladesh-student-protests-job-quotas.html |url-status=live }} In response, Hasina stated in a press conference, {{blockquote|"If the grandchildren of freedom fighters don't get quota benefits, will those then go to the grandchildren of the Razakars? That's my question to the countrymen."{{Cite web|url=https://www.wionews.com/south-asia/how-pm-hasinas-razakar-barb-became-catchword-of-bangladesh-protests-heres-what-it-means-742602|title=How PM Hasina's 'razakar' barb became catchword of Bangladesh protests; here's what it means|website=WION|date=20 July 2024|access-date=4 August 2024|archive-date=4 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804192747/https://www.wionews.com/south-asia/how-pm-hasinas-razakar-barb-became-catchword-of-bangladesh-protests-heres-what-it-means-742602|url-status=live}}}}

Protesters interpreted this as her referring to them as Razakars and adopted the title in some of their slogans.{{Cite news |url=https://www.jaijaidinbd.com/education/477574|script-title=bn:মধ্যরাতে 'তুমি কে, আমি কে, রাজাকার রাজাকার' স্লোগানে উত্তাল ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়|language=bn|work=Jaijaidin|date=15 July 2024|access-date=4 August 2024|archive-date=26 July 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726073957/https://www.jaijaidinbd.com/education/477574|url-status=live}}{{cite news |date=15 July 2024 |title=Protest erupts at Dhaka University over PM's quota remarks |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/352117/protests-erupt-at-dhaka-university-over-pm's-quota |work=Dhaka Tribune}} The protests later turned violent, involving police, the armed forces, and members of the Awami League, Chhatra League, and Jubo League, resulting in over 2000+ deaths and more than 20,000 injuries.{{cite news |script-title=bn:কোটা সংস্কার আন্দোলন: সংঘর্ষে নিহত ৬|url=https://www.rtvonline.com/bangladesh/282948|work=RTV|access-date=16 July 2024|language=bn|archive-date=6 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240806004036/https://www.rtvonline.com/bangladesh/282948|url-status=live}}{{cite news |script-title=bn:সারাদেশে সহিংসতায় নিহত ১১ |trans-title=11 killed in violence across the country |url=https://www.rtvonline.com/bangladesh/283229 |access-date=18 July 2024 |work=RTV |language=bn |archive-date=18 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240718125703/https://www.rtvonline.com/bangladesh/283229 |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |title=Drenched in blood – how Bangladesh protests turned deadly |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ng5v03gd4o |access-date=24 July 2024 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB |archive-date=4 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804023456/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ng5v03gd4o |url-status=live }} The government then shut down internet access for all non-essential purposes, conducted a massive crackdown on protestors with the help of the armed forces, and imposed a curfew that lasted five days.{{Cite news |date=19 July 2024 |title=Bangladesh wakes to TV, internet blackout as deadly protests spike |url=https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20240719-deadly-clashes-between-police-and-students-during-protests-in-bangladesh |access-date=24 July 2024 |work=France 24 |language=en |archive-date=24 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240724110442/https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20240719-deadly-clashes-between-police-and-students-during-protests-in-bangladesh |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |last=Shih |first=Gerry |date=19 July 2024 |title=Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/19/bangladesh-demonstrations-police-hasina/ |access-date=24 July 2024 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286 |archive-date=20 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240720085158/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/19/bangladesh-demonstrations-police-hasina/ |url-status=live }} The Supreme Court agreed to reform the quota system,{{cite news | url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/21/asia/bangladesh-supreme-court-rolls-back-job-quotas-intl/index.html | title=Bangladesh's top court rolls back some job quotas after deadly protests | date=21 July 2024 | access-date=4 August 2024 | archive-date=26 July 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726152608/https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/21/asia/bangladesh-supreme-court-rolls-back-job-quotas-intl | url-status=live |work=CNN}}{{cite news | url=https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20240721-bangladesh-s-top-court-scales-back-discriminatory-job-quota-system-after-deadly-protests | title=Bangladesh's top court scales back 'discriminatory' job quota system after deadly protests | date=21 July 2024 | access-date=4 August 2024 | archive-date=4 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804205527/https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20240721-bangladesh-s-top-court-scales-back-discriminatory-job-quota-system-after-deadly-protests | url-status=live |work= France 24}} but the protesters then demanded justice for those killed during the demonstrations and an official apology from Hasina and the resignation of certain ministers they believed were responsible for inciting violence.{{cite news |url=https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/bangladesh-protests-resume-after-ultimatum-ignored-curfew-sheikh-hasina-4511596 |title=Bangladesh protests resume after ultimatum ignored |website=CNA |date=29 July 2024 |access-date=29 July 2024 |archive-date=29 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240729124036/https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/bangladesh-protests-resume-after-ultimatum-ignored-curfew-sheikh-hasina-4511596 |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |date=23 July 2024 |title=In Bangladesh, protests are no longer about the quota system |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/7/23/bangladesh-protests-are-no-longer-about-the-quota-system |publisher=Aljazeera |type=Opinion |access-date=25 July 2024 |archive-date=25 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240725122503/https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/7/23/bangladesh-protests-are-no-longer-about-the-quota-system |url-status=live }} On 3 August, the protest organisers issued a single demand and announced a non-cooperation movement,{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/its-now-one-point-demand-3668751|title=It's now one point|work=The Daily Star|date=3 August 2024|access-date=3 August 2024|archive-date=3 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240803122001/https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/its-now-one-point-demand-3668751|url-status=live}} calling for the resignation of Hasina and her entire cabinet.{{Cite news |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/353558/one-point-demand-protesters-call-for-pm-hasina-to|title=One-point demand: Protesters call for PM Hasina to step down|work=Dhaka Tribune|date=3 August 2024}}

{{Main|Resignation of Sheikh Hasina}}

File:People cheering in front of the Prime Minister's Office after Sheikh Hasina's resignation.jpg, after Sheikh Hasina's resignation]]

Hasina resigned on 5 August 2024, as large crowds of demonstrators surrounded the prime minister's residence.Mujib Mashal, Shayeza Walid and Saif Hasnat, [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/world/asia/bangladesh-hasina-final-hours.html Bangladesh's Leader Fled Just Ahead of an Angry Crowd, Urged by Family to Go] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240807173507/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/world/asia/bangladesh-hasina-final-hours.html |date=7 August 2024 }}, New York Times (6 August 2024). Her resignation was announced by General Waker-uz-Zaman, the Chief of the Army Staff.{{Multiref2

| 1 = {{cite news |author1=Isaac Yee |author2=Tanbirul Miraj Ripon |title=Bangladesh prime minister resigns as deadly anti-government rallies grip nation |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/05/asia/bangladesh-prime-minister-residence-stormed-intl/index.html |work=CNN |date=5 August 2024 |language=en |access-date=5 August 2024 |archive-date=7 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240807132434/https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/05/asia/bangladesh-prime-minister-residence-stormed-intl/index.html |url-status=live }}

| 2 = {{cite news |title=Sheikh Hasina lands at Hindon Air Base near Delhi, after resigning as Bangladesh PM |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/sheikh-hasina-lands-at-hindon-air-base-after-resigning-as-bangladesh-pm/articleshow/112291984.cms?from=mdr |work=The Economic Times |date=5 August 2024 |access-date=5 August 2024 |archive-date=5 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240805130424/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/sheikh-hasina-lands-at-hindon-air-base-after-resigning-as-bangladesh-pm/articleshow/112291984.cms?from=mdr |url-status=live }}

| 3 = {{cite news |last1=Gupta |first1=Anant |title=Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigns, army chief says |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/08/05/bangladesh-prime-minister-hasina-resigns/ |newspaper=Washington Post |date=5 August 2024}}

| 4 = {{Cite news |last1=Alam |first1=Julhas |last2=Pathi |first2=Krutika |date=5 August 2024 |title=Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigns and leaves Bangladesh, ending 15-year rule |url=https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-hasina-student-protest-quota-violence-fdc7f2632c3d8fcbd913e6c0a1903fd4 |access-date=5 August 2024 |work=Associated Press |archive-date=5 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240805102752/https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-hasina-student-protest-quota-violence-fdc7f2632c3d8fcbd913e6c0a1903fd4 |url-status=live }}

}} Later that day, Hasina fled to India in a chaotic departure, first by car, then by helicopter, and finally by plane. She left with no resignation speech.

Hasina reportedly flew in a Bangladesh Air Force Lockheed C-130 transport to Hindon Air Force base in Ghaziabad, India, where she was received by the Indian national security advisor Ajit Doval along with other senior military officials.{{efn|Multiple references:{{cite news |title=Sheikh Hasina resigns LIVE updates: Army to form interim government amid Bangladesh crisis |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/bangladesh-protests-live-updates-students-protest-august-5-sheikh-hasina/article68486955.ece |access-date=5 August 2024 |date=5 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240805104315/https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/bangladesh-protests-live-updates-students-protest-august-5-sheikh-hasina/article68486955.ece |archive-date=5 August 2024 |language=en-IN|work= The Hindu}}{{Cite news |last=Dhar |first=Aniruddha |date=5 August 2024 |title=Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigns, flees country as protestors storm palace |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-resigns-flees-country-as-protesters-storm-palace-report-101722850283514.html |access-date=5 August 2024 |work=Hindustan Times |archive-date=8 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240808061244/https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-resigns-flees-country-as-protesters-storm-palace-report-101722850283514.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=Bangladesh protests: Sheikh Hasina resigns as Bangladesh PM, leaves country with sister: reports |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/sheik-hasina-resigns-as-bangladesh-pm-leaves-country-with-sister/article68487831.ece |access-date=5 August 2024 |date=5 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240805104325/https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/sheik-hasina-resigns-as-bangladesh-pm-leaves-country-with-sister/article68487831.ece |archive-date=5 August 2024 |language=en-IN}} to India.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9033zpv0nvo|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240805114845/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9033zpv0nvo|archive-date=5 August 2024|access-date=5 August 2024|url-status=live|title=How Bangladesh's protests ended Sheikh Hasina's 15-year reign|first=Anbarasan|last=Ethirajan|date=5 August 2024|publisher=BBC News}}|name="Multiplereference1"}} Indian foreign minister S. Jaishankar told the Parliament, "At very short notice, she requested approval to come for the moment to India." Her son, Sajeeb Wazed, initially said that she would not return to politics and planned to "stay in Delhi for a little while" before her next destination, but subsequently said on 7 August that she and the Awami League would remain active in the Bangladeshi political scene{{Cite news |title=Nobel laureate Yunus arrives in Bangladesh to take over as interim leader |url=https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-yunus-hasina-student-protests-8e72489d3f05ab50f1ea4564e5ad23aa |access-date=8 August 2024 |work=Associated Press |language=en |archive-date=8 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240808063054/https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-yunus-hasina-student-protests-8e72489d3f05ab50f1ea4564e5ad23aa |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=Hasina won't return to politics: Joy |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/hasina-wont-return-politics-joy-3670081 |work=The Daily Star |date=5 August 2024 |access-date=5 August 2024 |archive-date=7 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240807132936/https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/hasina-wont-return-politics-joy-3670081 |url-status=live }} and that she would return to the country once elections were declared.{{Cite news |date=10 August 2024 |title=Son says Hasina will return to Bangladesh |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy54l10z71lo |access-date=10 August 2024 |work=BBC News |language=en |archive-date=10 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240810060344/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy54l10z71lo |url-status=live }} He also insisted that Sheikh Hasina was still the prime minister, saying that she was unable to formally submit her resignation after being forced to flee from the protesters.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bangladeshs-hasina-did-not-resign-before-fleeing-delhi-says-son-adviser-2024-08-09/|title=Bangladesh's Hasina did not resign before fleeing, son says|first=Krishna N.|last=Das|date=10 August 2024|work=Reuters}} Hasina had hoped to go to London, but the United Kingdom reportedly rebuffed initial overtures seeking political asylum. She reportedly considered seeking temporary residence in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Belarus, or Qatar. Because her nephew lives in Finland, that country was speculated as a possible destination. Although Sajeeb Wazed lives in the U.S., she is considered unlikely to seek asylum there, as the U.S. government criticized her rule in Bangladesh.{{cite news|url=https://www.firstpost.com/world/as-uk-rebuffs-hasinas-asylum-request-she-looks-for-alternatives-in-uae-saudi-arabia-finland-13801955.html|title=As UK rebuffs Hasina's asylum request, she looks for alternatives in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Finland|newspaper=Firstpost|date=7 August 2024|access-date=7 August 2024|archive-date=7 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240807174523/https://www.firstpost.com/world/as-uk-rebuffs-hasinas-asylum-request-she-looks-for-alternatives-in-uae-saudi-arabia-finland-13801955.html|url-status=live}}

Hasina was living in a secret location in India under tight security as of August 2024.{{Cite news |date=6 August 2024 |title=Hasina moved to secure location in India |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/foreign-affairs/353859/hasina-moved-to-secure-location-in-india |access-date=6 August 2024 |work=Dhaka Tribune |language=en}} Sajeeb Wazed said that the protests which led to her resignation had support from a foreign intelligence agency, without naming any country.{{Cite news |date=2024-08-11 |title='I could have stayed in power if ...': Sheikh Hasina claims US role in her ouster from Bangladesh |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/i-could-have-stayed-in-power-if-sheikh-hasina-claims-us-role-in-her-ouster-from-bangladesh/articleshow/112441112.cms |access-date=2024-08-11 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257 |archive-date=11 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240811092723/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/i-could-have-stayed-in-power-if-sheikh-hasina-claims-us-role-in-her-ouster-from-bangladesh/articleshow/112441112.cms |url-status=live }} In a statement published in the Indian media on 11 August, she accused the United States of influencing her resignation, and previously accused the United States of conspiring to oust her in the Jatiya Sangsad.{{Cite news |title=Sheikh Hasina's Undelivered Speech Had Big Charge Against US |url=https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/sheikh-hasina-awami-league-bangladesh-protests-could-have-stayed-in-power-if-sheikh-hasinas-undelivered-speech-6312541 |access-date=2024-08-11 |work=NDTV |archive-date=9 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240909172324/https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/sheikh-hasina-awami-league-bangladesh-protests-could-have-stayed-in-power-if-sheikh-hasinas-undelivered-speech-6312541 |url-status=live }} However, Wazed called the statement "false and fabricated" and said Hasina "did not give any statement before or after leaving Dhaka".{{cite news |title=Joy denies Hasina's alleged statement on US role in ouster|work=Dhaka Tribune |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/354439/joy-denies-hasina%E2%80%99s-alleged-statement-on-us-role |access-date=11 August 2024 |date=12 August 2024}} The White House also denied allegations of any US involvement.{{Cite news |title=US rejects involvement in removing Hasina from power |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/foreign-affairs/354576/us-rejects-involvement-in-removing-hasina-from |access-date=2024-08-13 |work=Dhaka Tribune |language=en}} On 13 August, Hasina released her first confirmed statements since her overthrow published by Wazed Joy calling for an investigation into the killings made during the protests, while insisting that police and the Awami League were also victims of "terrorist aggression".{{Cite news |date=2024-08-14 |title=Bangladesh's ex-Premier Hasina calls for probe into killings during unrest that led to her ouster |url=https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-hasina-protest-murder-case-yunus-2ade106afabd85a0d9e58a7188e39e56 |access-date=2024-08-14|first=Julhas|last=Alam |language=en |archive-date=14 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240814021955/https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-hasina-protest-murder-case-yunus-2ade106afabd85a0d9e58a7188e39e56 |url-status=live|work=Associated Press }}

As of 10 September 2024, Hasina is facing 152 cases which include 135 for murder, 7 for crimes against humanity and genocide, 3 for abduction, 6 for attempted murder and 1 for the attack on a BNP procession.{{Cite news |date=10 September 2024 |title=Hasina, 156 others sued over killing two in Jatrabari |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/politics/news/hasina-156-others-sued-over-killing-two-jatrabari-3699421 |access-date=10 September 2024 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=22 August 2024 |script-title=bn:শেখ হাসিনার বিরুদ্ধে ঢাকায় আরও ৬ মামলা |url=https://www.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/v2gann1hom |access-date=22 August 2024 |work=Prothomalo |language=bn |archive-date=23 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240823195509/https://www.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/v2gann1hom |url-status=live }} These cases include other former government officials - Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan, Transport and Bridges Minister and concurrent Awami League secretary-general Obaidul Quader, and others.{{Cite web |date=18 August 2024 |title=2015 attack on Khaleda's convoy: Complaint filed against 113, including Hasina |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/355183/2015-attack-on-khaleda%E2%80%99s-convoy-complaint-filed |access-date=19 August 2024 |website=Dhaka Tribune |language=en }} The Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal opened an investigation on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity against her and nine senior government and Awami League officials over their role in the crackdown on the protests following a petition by the father of a killed student.{{Cite news |date=15 August 2024 |title=Probe starts against Hasina, 9 others for genocide, crimes against humanity |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/court/354800/probe-starts-against-hasina-9-others-for |access-date=15 August 2024 |work=Dhaka Tribune |language=en }} The BNP requested India to extradite Sheikh Hasina to Bangladesh for prosecution against the cases registered on her.{{Cite news |date=21 August 2024 |title=BNP asks India to extradite PM Sheikh Hasina for trial in Bangladesh |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/bnp-asks-india-to-extradite-pm-sheikh-hasina-for-trial-in-bangladesh/articleshow/112666680.cms |access-date=28 August 2024 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}

On 21 August, the Yunus interim government ordered the revocation of all diplomatic passports including Hasina's.{{Cite web |date=21 August 2024 |title=Govt to revoke diplomatic passports |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/355608/govt-to-revoke-diplomatic-passports |access-date=22 August 2024 |website=Dhaka Tribune |language=en }} On 29 August, the interim government issued an ordinance revoking a law providing special privileges to the Sheikh–Wazed family, including Sheikh Hasina, under which it was enacted in 2009.{{Cite web |date=29 August 2024 |title=Govt decides to repeal law for protecting family members of Bangabandhu |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/laws-rights/356528/govt-decides-to-repeal-law-for-protecting-family |access-date=29 August 2024 |website=Dhaka Tribune |language=en }}{{Cite news |date=5 September 2024 |title='She has to keep quiet till ...': Bangladesh's Muhammad Yunus sets conditions for Sheikh Hasina's interim stay in India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/she-has-to-keep-quiet-bangladeshs-muhammad-yunus-lays-out-condition-for-indias-support-of-sheikh-hasina/articleshow/113087674.cms |access-date=6 September 2024 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}} On 17 October, the International Crimes Tribunal issued an arrest warrant against her for alleged "crimes against humanity" committed during the July massacre.{{Cite web |date=17 October 2024 |title=Bangladesh issues arrest warrant for ex-leader Hasina |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98y6g2nx79o |access-date=17 October 2024 |website=BBC |language=en }} On 5 December, the tribunal banned her speeches and related broadcasts from being published in Bangladesh.{{Cite web |date=6 December 2024 |title=Bangladesh court bans publication of speeches by ousted Prime Minister Hasina |url=https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-hasina-yunus-speech-ban-media-eba39d596ca8ce54194fbc9195310691 |access-date=6 December 2024 |website=Associated Press |language=en }}

Presence of a large number of secret prison cells or aynaghars during Sheikh Hasina's 15 years was brought to the public eye by The Commission for Inquiry on Enforced Disappearance and was officially visited by Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus with victims and press in February 2025.{{cite web | title=Chief Adviser visits secret prison in Dhaka | website=Prothomalo | date=2025-02-12 | url=https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/government/ohk04zflw8 | access-date=2025-03-04}}{{cite web | title=Previous govt established 'aiyaame jaahiliya': Yunus after visiting 'Aynaghar' | website=Prothomalo | date=2025-02-12 | url=https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/osmq9vqhlu | access-date=2025-03-04}} At least one detention centre, next to Dhaka International Airport, with many tiny, dark cells had been bricked up to hide it after the regime fell. 500 to 700 cells were found throughout the country.{{cite news| last=Hussain | first=Samira | title=Bangladesh disappeared: Uncovering a secret jail next to an international airport | publisher=BBC News | date=15 April 2025 | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly6lp567r8o}} People were incarcerated sometimes for many years, and many are thought to have been killed.

A report titled White Paper on State of Bangladesh Economy published on December 1, 2024, estimated that up to US$16 billion was annually diverted through money laundering during Sheikh Hasina's tenure as Prime Minister from 2009 to 2024, adding up to more than $240 billion over 15 years.{{cite web | title=Review of the White Paper on Bangladesh economy | website=The Financial Express | date=2025-03-04 | url=https://thefinancialexpress.com.bd/views/views/review-of-the-white-paper-on-bangladesh-economy | access-date=2025-03-04}}{{cite web | author=The Financial Express | title=White Paper on the state of Bangladesh economy: some insights & reflections | website=The Financial Express | date=2024-12-01 | url=https://today.thefinancialexpress.com.bd/views-opinion/white-paper-on-the-state-of-bangladesh-economy-some-insights-reflections-1734451363 | access-date=2025-03-04}}{{cite web | title=Committee submits White Paper on economy to Chief Adviser | website=Prothomalo | date=2024-12-01 | url=https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/8hg6ufm4ij | access-date=2025-03-04}}

In December 2024, the Bangladeshi government opened an investigation against Hasina, her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, and her niece, Tulip Siddiq, who is an MP and was then a cabinet minister in the United Kingdom, over allegations of embezzlement of $5 billion in funds for the construction of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant using offshore accounts in Malaysia.{{Cite web |date=23 December 2024 |title=Bangladesh launches $5bn graft probe into Hasina's family |url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241223-bangladesh-launches-5bn-graft-probe-into-hasina-s-family |access-date=24 December 2024 |website=France 24 |language=en }} On 24 December, the Bangladeshi government formally requested the Indian Ministry of External Affairs to extradite Hasina.{{Cite web |date=24 December 2024 |title=Bangladesh seeks extradition of ousted leader Sheikh Hasina from India|url=https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-sheikh-hasina-extradition-india-6effef70de22f18c502a7791360ece08 |access-date=24 December 2024 |website=Associated Press |language=en }}

The Interim Government has made the money laundering case of Sheikh Hasina and her family as a top priority for resolution.{{cite web | title=BFIU finds Tk635cr in 124 frozen bank accounts of Hasina, family | website=The Business Standard | date=2025-03-10 | url=https://www.tbsnews.net/economy/banking/bfiu-finds-tk635cr-124-frozen-bank-accounts-hasina-family-1089121 | access-date=2025-03-18}} On 11 March 2025, a Dhaka court ordered the freezing of 124 bank accounts of Sheikh Hasina, her family, related individuals and institutions which had Tk635.14 crore in them.{{cite web | title=Court orders to freeze 31 bank accounts of Hasina, family | website=Dhaka Tribune | date=2025-03-18 | url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/court/376602/court-orders-to-freeze-31-bank-accounts-of-hasina | access-date=2025-03-18}} It has also confiscated eight plots, which include 60-katha RAJUK plot with a deed value of Tk1.80 crore, as well as 10 decimal land holdings valued at Tk8.85 crore. On 18 March 2025, A court in Dhaka has issued an order to freeze another 31 bank accounts connected to Sheikh Hasina, her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, daughter Saima Wazed Putul, sister Sheikh Rehana, and their affiliates. The total amount held in these accounts is Tk394.6 crore. A joint probe team found assets of Sheikh Hasina, her family, related individuals and institutions in United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Cayman Islands. Existence of a Russian slush fund was found in a bank of Malaysia.{{cite web | title=Assets of Hasina, family members found in 5 countries: Shafiqul Alam | website=Prothomalo | date=2025-03-10 | url=https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/234w4zfglk | access-date=2025-03-18}}

On 1 June 2025, the International Crimes Tribunal began trying Sheikh Hasina in absentia for the repression of protests against her government.{{Cite web |date=1 June 2025 |title=Bangladesh ex-PM Hasina charged with ‘systematic attack’ as trial opens |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/1/bangladesh-ex-pm-hasina-charged-with-systematic-attack-as-trial-opens |access-date=1 June 2025 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}

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The Padma Bridge graft scandal involved the ruling Awami League government that allegedly sought, in exchange for the awarding of the construction contract, a large amount of money from the Canadian construction company SNC-Lavalin. The allegations were subsequently found to be false and without merit, and a Canadian court subsequently dismissed the case.{{cite news |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/world/north-america/canada-court-finds-no-proof-padma-bridge-graft-conspiracy-1359397 |title=Canada court finds no proof of Padma bridge bribery conspiracy |work=The Daily Star |date=11 February 2017 |access-date=27 September 2017 |archive-date=8 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408074252/https://www.thedailystar.net/world/north-america/canada-court-finds-no-proof-padma-bridge-graft-conspiracy-1359397 |url-status=live}}

As a result of the allegations, the World Bank pulled out of a project to provide funding for the Padma Bridge, citing corruption concerns, cancelling {{BDTConvert|10241.346|c}} of credit for the {{convert|6|km|mi|adj=mid|-long}} road-rail bridge over the Padma River.{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-18655846 |title=World Bank cancels Bangladesh bridge loan over corruption |date=30 June 2012 |work=BBC News |access-date=31 December 2016 |archive-date=15 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915014739/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-18655846 |url-status=live}} One of the individuals implicated was Minister of Communications Syed Abul Hossain who subsequently resigned and was later acquitted of any wrongdoing.{{Cite news |url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2012/02/strange-bedfellows-bangladesh |title=Bridge-mending |date=27 February 2012 |newspaper=The Economist |access-date=6 February 2017 |issn=0013-0613 |archive-date=7 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207112540/http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2012/02/strange-bedfellows-bangladesh |url-status=live}} On 11 July 2012, BNP General-Secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said the Awami League government should make public a letter sent by the World Bank, wherein the Bank brought graft charges against Hasina and three other figures.{{Cite news |url=http://print.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/old/more.php?news_id=136204&date=2012-07-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207112707/http://print.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/old/more.php?news_id=136204&date=2012-07-11 |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 February 2017 |title=PM among 3 charged with graft by WB : Fakhrul |last=Ahmed |first=Hafez |work=The Financial Express |location=Dhaka |access-date=6 February 2017}} On 17 January 2016, Hasina stated that a managing director of a bank in the United States provoked the World Bank to cancel the loan.{{Cite news |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/city/banks-md-provoked-wb-scrap-padma-bridge-funding-202999 |title=A bank's MD provoked WB to scrap Padma Bridge funding |date=17 January 2016 |newspaper=The Daily Star |access-date=6 February 2017 |archive-date=29 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329123634/http://www.thedailystar.net/city/banks-md-provoked-wb-scrap-padma-bridge-funding-202999 |url-status=live}} The bridge was eventually constructed with the government's own funds and was inaugurated in June 2022 at a cost of {{BDTConvert|30193.39|c|nolink=yes}},{{Cite news |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2022/06/25/padma-bridge-belongs-to-the-people-of-bangladesh |title=PM: Padma bridge belongs to people of Bangladesh |date=25 June 2022 |access-date=10 March 2023 |work=Dhaka Tribune |last1=Farhin Antara |first1=Nawaz |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230310033126/https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2022/06/25/padma-bridge-belongs-to-the-people-of-bangladesh |archive-date=10 March 2023 |url-status=live |last2=Mamun |first2=Shohel}} much higher than the original projected cost of {{BDTConvert|10161.75|c|nolink=yes}}.{{cite news |last1=Islam |first1=Jahidul |title=How Padma Bridge cost surged to Tk30,000cr |url=https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/infrastructure/how-padma-bridge-cost-surged-tk30000cr-170515 |access-date=24 March 2023 |work=The Business Standard |date=12 December 2020 |language=en |archive-date=24 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230324204536/https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/infrastructure/how-padma-bridge-cost-surged-tk30000cr-170515 |url-status=live}}

On 24 January 2017, in a speech in parliament, Prime Minister Hasina blamed Muhammad Yunus for the World Bank's pulling out of the project.{{Cite news |url=http://en.prothom-alo.com/bangladesh/news/137137/PM-blames-Yunus-for-cancellation-of-WB-s-Padma |title=PM blames Yunus for cancellation of WB's Padma financing |newspaper=Prothom Alo |access-date=26 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170125165107/http://en.prothom-alo.com/bangladesh/news/137137/PM-blames-Yunus-for-cancellation-of-WB-s-Padma |archive-date=25 January 2017 |url-status=dead}} According to her, Yunus lobbied with the former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to persuade the World Bank to terminate the loan.{{Cite news |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/nobel-laureate-yunus-got-hillary-clinton-to-stop-wb-funding-for-padma-bridge-says-hasina |title=Nobel laureate Yunus got Hillary Clinton to stop WB funding for Padma Bridge, says Hasina |newspaper=bdnews24.com |date=25 January 2017 |access-date=26 January 2017}} On 10 February 2017, a justice of the Superior Court of Ontario dismissed the bribery-conspiracy case for lack of any evidence.

In 2018, Hasina's government passed the controversial Digital Security Act, 2018, under which any criticism deemed inappropriate by the government over the internet or any other media could be punished by prison terms of various degrees. This was heavily criticised both domestically and internationally for suppressing people's freedom of speech, as well as undermining press freedom in Bangladesh.{{multiref2|1={{cite news |title=Tool ripe for abuse: HRW |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/politics/digital-security-act-2018-overly-broad-ripe-abuse-human-rights-watch-1638454 |work=The Daily Star |date=26 September 2018 |access-date=7 February 2020 |archive-date=21 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230921144531/https://www.thedailystar.net/politics/digital-security-act-2018-overly-broad-ripe-abuse-human-rights-watch-1638454 |url-status=dead}}

|2={{cite web |url=https://www.accessnow.org/new-digital-security-act-in-bangladesh-deepens-threats-to-free-expression/ |title=New Digital Security Act in Bangladesh deepens threats to free expression |date=21 September 2018 |access-date=31 March 2020 |archive-date=7 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200207080957/https://www.accessnow.org/new-digital-security-act-in-bangladesh-deepens-threats-to-free-expression/ |url-status=live}}

|3= {{cite web |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/11/bangladesh-muzzling-dissent-online/ |title=Bangladesh: New Digital Security Act is attack on freedom of expression |date=12 November 2018 |publisher=Amnesty International |access-date=31 March 2020 |archive-date=27 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227092510/https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/11/bangladesh-muzzling-dissent-online/ |url-status=live}}

|4= {{Cite news |url=https://www.newagebd.net/article/53662/digital-security-act-2018-young-generation-speaks |title=Digital Security Act 2018: young generation speaks |work=New Age |access-date=31 March 2020 |archive-date=24 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200224214333/http://www.newagebd.net/article/53662/digital-security-act-2018-young-generation-speaks |url-status=live}}

|5= {{Cite news |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/bangladesh-editors-protest-chilling-digital-security-law-181015122440417.html |title=Bangladesh editors protest 'chilling' Digital Security Act |work=Al Jazeera |access-date=31 March 2020 |archive-date=21 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200321103749/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/bangladesh-editors-protest-chilling-digital-security-law-181015122440417.html |url-status=live}}

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In December 2022, the Hasina government ordered the closure of 191 websites accused of publishing "anti-state news" citing intelligence reports. Dhaka district authorities ordered the closure of Dainik Dinkal, which is owned by Tarique Rahman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Dainik Dinkal appealed the order to the Bangladesh Press Council who dismissed their appeal in February 2022, resulting in its closure.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/20/bangladesh-shuts-down-main-opposition-newspaper-sheikh-hasina |title=Bangladesh shuts down main opposition newspaper |date=20 February 2023 |work=Agence France-Presse |access-date=20 February 2023 |archive-date=20 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230220130345/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/20/bangladesh-shuts-down-main-opposition-newspaper-sheikh-hasina |url-status=live}} The move has been criticised by government opponents who claim the move is an attempt to stifle opposition to the government. The government claimed Dainik Dinkal violated articles 10, 11, 16, 21(1)(kha) of the Printing Presses and Publications (Declaration and Registration) Act, 1973 as it had irregular publication and its publisher was a convicted felon.{{Cite news |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2023/02/23/now-dainik-dinkal-faces-shutdown |title=Now Dainik Dinkal faces shutdown |date=23 February 2023 |access-date=12 March 2023 |work=Dhaka Tribune |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230312152601/https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2023/02/23/now-dainik-dinkal-faces-shutdown |archive-date=12 March 2023 |url-status=live}}

In June 2024, Sheikh Hasina paid a state visit to New Delhi, during which Bangladesh and India signed ten bilateral agreements, including one on allowing India a rail corridor to its northeastern states through Bangladeshi territory. This led to widespread criticism in Bangladesh on the issue of the country's sovereignty, accusing Hasina of "selling the country to India".{{cite news |title=PM Hasina bins criticism of selling country to India |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/foreign-affairs/350166/pm-hasina-slams-criticism-of-selling-country-to |access-date=6 August 2024 |work=Dhaka Tribune |archive-date=25 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240625093936/https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/foreign-affairs/350166/pm-hasina-slams-criticism-of-selling-country-to |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=Sheikh Hasina doesn't sell the country, say prime minister |url=https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/76mu2u1gmz |access-date=6 August 2024 |work=Prothomalo |date=25 June 2024 |language=en |archive-date=5 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240805130957/https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/76mu2u1gmz |url-status=live }}

Domestically, Hasina has been criticised as being too close to India, often at the cost of Bangladesh's sovereignty. She is seen by her critics as a manifestation of India's interference in Bangladeshi politics, which they have described as the main source of her power.{{cite news |date=23 February 2024 |title=Bangladeshis launch 'India Out' campaign over alleged meddling linked to Hasina |url=https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3253018/bangladeshis-launch-india-out-campaign-over-new-delhis-alleged-meddling-keep-hasina-power |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240714004658/https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3253018/bangladeshis-launch-india-out-campaign-over-new-delhis-alleged-meddling-keep-hasina-power |archive-date=14 July 2024 |access-date=6 August 2024 |work=South China Morning Post |language=en}}{{cite news |title=What does Sheikh Hasina's resignation mean for India-Bangladesh relations? |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/8/12/what-does-sheikh-hasinas-resignation-mean-for-india-bangladesh-relations |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240915062926/https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/8/12/what-does-sheikh-hasinas-resignation-mean-for-india-bangladesh-relations |archive-date=15 September 2024 |access-date=15 September 2024 |work=Al Jazeera |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Ellis-Petersen |first1=Hannah |date=2 September 2024 |title='A myopic policy': India's backing of ousted Bangladesh leader Sheikh Hasina leaves it in a bind |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/03/a-myopic-policy-indias-backing-of-ousted-bangladesh-leader-sheikh-hasina-leaves-it-in-a-bind |access-date=15 September 2024 |work=The Guardian}}

In 1968, Hasina married M. A. Wazed Miah (1942–2009), a Bangladeshi physicist, writer, and chairman of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission.{{cite web |title=Sheikh Hasina Wazed |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sheikh-Hasina-Wazed |access-date=27 March 2022 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en |archive-date=12 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112005936/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sheikh-Hasina-Wazed |url-status=live}} They have a son, Sajeeb Wazed, and a daughter, Saima Wazed. Saima's father-in-law is a former minister of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment and LGRD, Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain.{{Cite news |url=http://www.ebangladesh.com/1570 |title=Discussion on the New Cabinet |date=6 January 2009 |newspaper=E-Bangladesh |access-date=30 January 2017 |archive-date=28 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328231818/http://www.ebangladesh.com/1570 |url-status=live}} Hasina's only living sibling, Sheikh Rehana, served as the adviser of Tungipara upazila unit Awami League in Gopalganj in 2017.{{Cite news |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/politics/2017/07/30/shiekh-rehana-becomes-adviser-tungipara-al |title=Sheikh Rehana becomes adviser of Tungipara AL |date=30 July 2017 |work=Dhaka Tribune |access-date=26 March 2022 |archive-date=9 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209125240/https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/politics/2017/07/30/shiekh-rehana-becomes-adviser-tungipara-al |url-status=live}} Hasina's niece (and Sheikh Rehana's daughter) is Tulip Siddiq, a British Labour Party politician and elected Member of Parliament. Siddiq was City Minister but has since resigned.{{cite news |title=UK lawmaker Tulip Siddiq appointed as City Minister |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-appoints-tulip-siddiq-city-minister-bloomberg-reports-2024-07-09/ |work=Reuters |date=9 July 2024}}{{cite news |url=https://news.sky.com/story/tulip-siddiq-resigns-as-treasury-minister-13287920 |title=Tulip Siddiq resigns as Treasury minister |last=Brown |first=Faye |work=Sky News |date=14 January 2025 |access-date=15 January 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyk2e7x42zo|title=Tulip Siddiq resigns as Treasury minister|first1=Brian|last1=Wheeler|publisher=BBC News|date=14 January 2025|accessdate=14 January 2025}}

During her political career, Sheikh Hasina has survived a total of 19 assassination attempts.{{Cite news |url=https://www.tbsnews.net/supplement/life-haunted-assassins-all-along-308341 |title=A life haunted by assassins all along |date=27 September 2021 |access-date=22 August 2022 |work=The Business Standard |last=Karim |first=Rezaul |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220822030914/https://www.tbsnews.net/supplement/life-haunted-assassins-all-along-308341?amp |archive-date=22 August 2022 |url-status=live}} She suffers from a hearing impairment as a result of injuries sustained during the 2004 grenade attack.{{Cite news |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2022/08/21/august-21-grenade-attack-the-day-democracy-almost-died |title=August 21 grenade attack: The day democracy almost died |date=21 August 2022 |access-date=27 February 2023 |work=Dhaka Tribune |author= |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230228023659/https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2022/08/21/august-21-grenade-attack-the-day-democracy-almost-died |archive-date=28 February 2023 |url-status=live}} Given the violent history of brutal assassination of Sheikh Mujib family in 1975,{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/08/25/archives/mujibs-loyal-followers-reported-to-plot-vengeance.html | title=Mujib's Loyal Followers Reported to Plot Vengeance | work=The New York Times | date=25 August 1975 | access-date=3 August 2024 | archive-date=6 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240806145020/https://www.nytimes.com/1975/08/25/archives/mujibs-loyal-followers-reported-to-plot-vengeance.html | url-status=live }} and later attempts to assassinate Sheikh Hasina and very high security risk towards the immediate Mujib family members, in 2015, she and her children were given lifelong protection by the government of Bangladesh through the Special Security Force.{{cite news |title=Bangabandhu family to get more security, free utility, foreign treatment |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/country/bangabandhu-family-get-more-security-free-utility-foreign-treatment-87319 |work=The Daily Star |date=25 May 2015 |language=en |access-date=3 August 2024 |archive-date=18 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240518055841/https://www.thedailystar.net/country/bangabandhu-family-get-more-security-free-utility-foreign-treatment-87319 |url-status=live }}{{cite news | url=https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/19-facilities-for-Bangabandhu-family | title=19 privileges for Bangabandhu family | date=26 May 2015 | work=Prothom Alo | access-date=3 August 2024 | archive-date=2 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240802062657/https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/19-facilities-for-Bangabandhu-family | url-status=live }} Practice of extending such security protection is not rare for persons with high security risk to their lives.{{cite news|url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/246958/cabinet-clears-ssf-bill-to-increase-security-for|title=Cabinet clears SSF Bill to increase security for Bangabandhu's family|work=Dhaka Tribune|date=17 May 2021}} The government also announced free utility for life for her and her family.{{Cite news |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/tighter-security-for-bangabandhu-family |title=Tighter security for Bangabandhu family |date=26 May 2015 |work=bdnews24.com |language=en |access-date=19 January 2017 |archive-date=2 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240802062656/https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/tighter-security-for-bangabandhu-family |url-status=live }} However, the interim government decided to cancel this law.{{cite news |title=Security laws for Bangabandhu's family members to be cancelled |url=https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/security-laws-bangabandhus-family-members-be-cancelled-927491 |work=The Business Standard |date=28 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240828085809/https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/security-laws-bangabandhus-family-members-be-cancelled-927491 |archive-date=28 August 2024 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=Draft to repeal security act for Bangabandhu's family members approved |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/draft-repeal-security-act-bangabandhus-family-members-approved-3689741 |work=The Daily Star |date=29 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240829153734/https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/draft-repeal-security-act-bangabandhus-family-members-approved-3689741 |archive-date=29 August 2024 |language=en}} Then on 9 September 2024, an ordinance was issued repealing this law.{{cite news |script-title=bn:বঙ্গবন্ধু পরিবারের বিশেষ নিরাপত্তা আইন বাতিল করে অধ্যাদেশ জারি |url=https://dailyinqilab.com/national/news/685023 |work=Daily Inqilab |date=9 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240909164022/https://dailyinqilab.com/national/news/685023 |archive-date=9 September 2024 |language=bn}}{{cite news |title=Law providing special security to Bangabandhu's family abolished |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/357883/law-providing-special-security-to%C2%A0-bangabandhu%E2%80%99s |work=Dhaka Tribune |date=9 September 2024}}

• Degree of Doctor of Law by the Boston University on 6 February 1997.{{cite web |url=http://www.pmo.gov.bd/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=137&Itemid=351 |script-title=bn:প্রধানমন্ত্রীর কার্যালয়-গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ সরকার |language=bn |access-date=15 February 2015 |archive-date=15 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215210043/http://pmo.gov.bd/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=137&Itemid=351 |url-status=live}}
• Honorary Doctor of Law by the Waseda University{{cite web |url=http://www.waseda.jp/eng/about/honorary.html |title=早稲田大学 |access-date=15 February 2015 |archive-date=25 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025034831/http://www.waseda.jp/eng/about/honorary.html |url-status=live}} of Japan on 4 July 1997.
• Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy in Liberal Arts by the University of Abertay Dundee on 25 October 1997.
• Honorary Degree of 'Desikottama' (Doctor of Literature, honoris causa) by the Visva-Bharati University of India on 28 January 1999.{{cite web |url=http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/at_a_glance/desikot.htm |title=Desikottamas |access-date=15 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215213359/http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/at_a_glance/desikot.htm |archive-date=15 February 2015}}
• Doctor of Law{{cite web |url=http://about.anu.edu.au/__documents/committees/honorary_degrees/hasina.pdf |title=About ANU |work=ANU |access-date=15 February 2015 |archive-date=17 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517101103/http://about.anu.edu.au/__documents/committees/honorary_degrees/hasina.pdf |url-status=live}} (honoris causa), by the Australian National University on 20 October 1999.
• Honorary Doctor of Law by the University of Dhaka{{cite web |url=http://www.du.ac.bd/main_menu/the_university/honoris_causa |title=The University: Honoris Causa |publisher=University of Dhaka |access-date=15 February 2015 |archive-date=5 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151005084251/http://www.du.ac.bd/main_menu/the_university/honoris_causa |url-status=live}} on 18 December 1999.
• Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by University of Bridgeport on 5 September 2000.
• Doctor of Literature (honoris causa) by the Tripura University in January 2012.{{cite news |url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/policy/hasina-gets-emotional-about-tripura/article23068659.ece |work=Business Line |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180526120852/https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/policy/hasina-gets-emotional-about-tripura/article23068659.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 May 2018 |title=Hasina gets emotional about Tripura |date=26 May 2018}}{{cite news |url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/218705/content/218348/archives.php |title=Hasina receives doctorate, gets emotional about Tripura |work=Deccan Herald |access-date=15 February 2015 |archive-date=15 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215213904/http://www.deccanherald.com/content/218705/content/218348/archives.php |url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120112/jsp/frontpage/story_14998049.jsp |title=Hasina receives doctorate, gets emotional about Tripura |work=The Telegraph |location=Calcutta |access-date=15 February 2015 |archive-date=15 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215211607/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120112/jsp/frontpage/story_14998049.jsp |url-status=dead}}{{cite news |url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/article330512.ece |title=Tripura varsity confers doctorate on Hasina |work=The New Indian Express |access-date=15 February 2015 |archive-date=15 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215214820/http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/article330512.ece |url-status=dead}}
• Doctor of the University (Honorary) by the Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University on 16 November 2015.{{cite news |url=http://www.daily-sun.com/magazine/details/92305/1st-Convocation-of-SAU-Held |title=1st Convocation of SAU Held |work=Daily Sun |access-date=22 November 2015 |archive-date=23 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123222412/http://www.daily-sun.com/magazine/details/92305/1st-Convocation-of-SAU-Held |url-status=live}}
• Doctor of Letters (Honorary) by the Kazi Nazrul University, West Bengal, India on 26 May 2018.{{cite news |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/secularism-the-way-forward-for-bangladesh-says-sheikh-hasina/article23998757.ece |title=Secularism the way forward for Bangladesh, says Sheikh Hasina |date=26 May 2018 |work=The Hindu |access-date=27 August 2018 |archive-date=9 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109035032/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/secularism-the-way-forward-for-bangladesh-says-sheikh-hasina/article23998757.ece |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/hasina-conferred-honorary-d-litt-by-kazi-nazrul-university/articleshow/64331464.cms |title=Hasina conferred honorary D.Litt by Kazi Nazrul University |work=The Times of India |access-date=31 March 2020 |archive-date=15 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915100029/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/hasina-conferred-honorary-d-litt-by-kazi-nazrul-university/articleshow/64331464.cms |url-status=live}}

• Foreign Policy magazine named her as one of the world's leading global thinkers in 2019.{{cite magazine |date=15 January 2019 |title=2019 Global Thinkers |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2019-global-thinkers/ |url-status=live |magazine=Foreign Policy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114153402/https://foreignpolicy.com/2019-global-thinkers/ |archive-date=14 January 2019 |access-date=23 June 2024}}
• Planet 50–50 champion by UN Women.{{cite news |title=Prime Minister Shiekh Hasina receives 'Planet 50–50 Champion' and 'Agent of Change Award' |date=22 September 2016 |work=bdnews24.com |url=http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/prime-minister-shiekh-hasina-receives-planet-50-50-champion-and-agent-of-change-award |access-date=22 September 2016}}
• Agent of Change Award by Global Partnership Forum.
• Included on the Time 100 list in 2018.{{cite magazine |last=Ganguly |first=Meenakshi |title=Sheikh Hasina Is on the 2018 TIME 100 List |url=https://time.com/collection/most-influential-people-2018/5217583/sheikh-hasina/ |magazine=Time |access-date=8 November 2018 |archive-date=1 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181101201356/http://www.time.com/collection/most-influential-people-2018/5217583/sheikh-hasina/ |url-status=live}}
• 59th place on Forbes{{'}} list of 100 most powerful women in the world.{{cite news |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-on-forbes-list-of-100-most-powerful-women-in-the-world |title=Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina on Forbes' list of 100 most powerful women in the world |newspaper=bdnews24 |date=27 May 2015 |access-date=8 May 2016}}
• The Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize by the UNESCO for 1998.{{cite web |url=http://www.unesco.org/new/en/houphouet-boigny-peace-prize/award/prizewinners/1998-prizewinners/ |title=1998 Prizewinners – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |access-date=15 February 2015 |archive-date=16 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216020535/http://www.unesco.org/new/en/houphouet-boigny-peace-prize/award/prizewinners/1998-prizewinners/ |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.unesco.org/new/en/houphouet-boigny-peace-prize/award/prizewinners/ |title=Prizewinners of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |access-date=15 February 2015 |archive-date=16 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216020531/http://www.unesco.org/new/en/houphouet-boigny-peace-prize/award/prizewinners/ |url-status=live}}
• Mother Teresa Award by the All India Peace Council in 1998.
• M.K. Gandhi Award for 1998 by the Mahatma M K Gandhi Foundation of Oslo, Norway.
• Awarded Medal of Distinction in 1996–97 and 1998–99 and Head of State Medal in 1996–97 by the Lions Clubs International.{{cite web |url=http://pmo.gov.bd/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=137&Itemid=351 |script-title=bn:প্রধানমন্ত্রীর কার্যালয়-গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ সরকার |language=bn |access-date=15 February 2015 |archive-date=15 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215210043/http://pmo.gov.bd/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=137&Itemid=351 |url-status=live}}
• The Ceres Medal{{cite web |url=http://www.fao.org/News/2000/Brief/BR0001-e.htm |title=News in brief – January 2000 |access-date=15 February 2015 |archive-date=15 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215232737/http://www.fao.org/News/2000/Brief/BR0001-e.htm |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.fao.org/NEWSROOM/EN/news/2006/1000417/index.html |title=Queen Sofia of Spain awarded the Ceres Medal |access-date=15 February 2015 |archive-date=15 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215232735/http://www.fao.org/NEWSROOM/EN/news/2006/1000417/index.html |url-status=live}} by the Food and Agriculture Organization for 1999.{{cite web |url=http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/faobd/docs/In_Focus/Storyline_BGD_MDG1_achievd.pdf |title=Bangladesh recognized for halving hunger before MDG timeline |website=fao.org |publisher=Food and Agriculture Organization |access-date=28 March 2016 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924143546/http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/faobd/docs/In_Focus/Storyline_BGD_MDG1_achievd.pdf |url-status=live}}
• The Pearl S. Buck Award{{cite web |url=http://web.randolphcollege.edu/buck/award.asp#recipients |title=Randolph College – The Pearl S. Buck Award |access-date=15 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215205604/http://web.randolphcollege.edu/buck/award.asp#recipients |archive-date=15 February 2015}} by the Randolph College on 9 April 2000.
• Named Paul Harris Fellow by the Rotary Foundation.
• Indira Gandhi Prize for 2009.{{cite news |url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/46408/archives.php |title=Hasina honoured with Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace |work=Deccan Herald |access-date=15 February 2015 |archive-date=15 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215215645/http://www.deccanherald.com/content/46408/archives.php |url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/article221350.ece |title=Sheikh Hasina receives Indira Gandhi award |work=The New Indian Express |access-date=15 February 2015 |archive-date=15 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215213428/http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/article221350.ece |url-status=dead}}
• UNESCO Peace Tree award for her commitment to women's empowerment and girl's education in 2014.{{cite news |last=Rahman |first=Mizan |date=8 September 2014 |title=Unesco honours Hasina for promotion of girls' education |url=http://www.gulf-times.com/bangladesh/245/details/407428/unesco-honours-hasina-for-promotion-of-girls%E2%80%99-education |newspaper=Gulf Times |access-date=23 September 2014 |archive-date=17 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140917101502/http://www.gulf-times.com/bangladesh/245/details/407428/unesco-honours-hasina-for-promotion-of-girls%e2%80%99-education |url-status=live}}
• UN environment prize for leadership on climate change.{{cite web |url=https://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=51865 |title=Bangladeshi Prime Minister wins UN environment prize for leadership on climate change |date=14 September 2015 |publisher=UN News Centre |access-date=15 September 2015 |archive-date=15 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915191220/http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=51865 |url-status=live}}
• Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award (Champions of the Earth) in 2015.{{cite web |work=UN Environment Programme |title=Search Results |url=https://www.unep.org/championsofearth/search/node?keys=Sheikh+Hasina |language=en |access-date=22 July 2022 |archive-date=22 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220722103954/https://www.unep.org/championsofearth/search/node?keys=Sheikh+Hasina |url-status=live}}

• Hasina appears in the 2018 docudrama Hasina: A Daughter's Tale, directed by Rezaur Rahman Khan Piplu.{{cite news |first1=Elita |last1=Karim |author1-link=Elita Karim |date=29 September 2018 |title='Hasina: A Daughter's Tale' to Premiere Soon |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/news/hasina-daughters-tale-premiere-soon-1640251 |work=The Daily Star |access-date=3 October 2018 |archive-date=6 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106093026/https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/news/hasina-daughters-tale-premiere-soon-1640251 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |title='Hasina: A Daughter's Tale' awaits release |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/feature/2018/09/28/hasina-a-daughter-s-tale-awaits-release |work=Dhaka Tribune |date=28 September 2018 |access-date=2 October 2018 |archive-date=3 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003104536/https://www.dhakatribune.com/feature/2018/09/28/hasina-a-daughter-s-tale-awaits-release |url-status=live}}
• On 1 February 2021, Hasina was referred in Al Jazeera's 64-minute documentary All the Prime Minister's Men.
• On 28 September 2021, Khoka Theke Bangabandhu Jatir Pita, an animated biopic of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was released where Sheikh Hasina was also portrayed.{{cite web |script-title=bn:অ্যানিমেশন: 'খোকা থেকে বঙ্গবন্ধু জাতির পিতা' |url=https://www.kalerkantho.com/online/national/2021/03/17/1014908 |website=Kaler Kantho |access-date=28 November 2023 |language=bn |date=17 March 2021 |archive-date=12 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231212180502/https://www.kalerkantho.com/online/national/2021/03/17/1014908 |url-status=live }}
• On 1 October 2021, another animated film named Mujib Amar Pita about Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was released which also included Sheikh Hasina. The film was based on Hasina's book Sheikh Mujib Amar Pita.{{Cite web |script-title=bn:'মুজিব আমার পিতা' মুক্তি পাচ্ছে ১ অক্টোবর |url=https://www.sunnews24x7.com/news/article/entertainment/46830 |access-date=14 April 2023 |website=www.sunnews24x7.com |language=bn |archive-date=14 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414120823/https://www.sunnews24x7.com/news/article/entertainment/46830 |url-status=live }}
• On 26 October 2023, Amader Choto Russel Shona, an animated film about Sheikh Russel, was released where Sheikh Hasina was portrayed as elder sister of Russel. She also wrote the screenplay of the movie.{{cite web |title=Sheikh Hasina unveils 'Duronto Pranovonto Sheikh Russell' |url=https://www.newagebd.net/article/184010/sheikh-hasina-unveils-duronto-pranovonto-sheikh-russell |access-date=25 November 2023 |website=New Age |archive-date=25 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231125124628/https://www.newagebd.net/article/184010/sheikh-hasina-unveils-duronto-pranovonto-sheikh-russell |url-status=live }}
• On 17 November 2023, Hasina appears giving interview about the Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in The Assassin Next Door, an episode of Canadian documentary series The Fifth Estate.{{Cite news |date=21 November 2023 |title=The assassin next door |work=CBC News |url=https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/the-assassin-next-door |access-date=25 November 2023 |archive-date=24 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124181622/https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/the-assassin-next-door |url-status=live }}

{{Main|Electoral history of Sheikh Hasina}}

1. সাদা কালো (Black and White){{cite book |script-title=bn:সাদা কালো – শেখ হাসিনা |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/2351/sada-kalo |access-date=22 August 2018 |language=bn |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822145420/https://www.rokomari.com/book/2351/sada-kalo |url-status=live}}
2. Democracy in Distress Demeaned Humanity{{cite book |title=Democracy in Distress Demeaned Humanity – Sheikh Hasina |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/2189/democracy-in-distress-demeaned-humanity |access-date=22 August 2018 |language=en |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822145449/https://www.rokomari.com/book/2189/democracy-in-distress-demeaned-humanity |url-status=live}}
3. শেখ রাসেল (Sheikh Rasel){{cite book |last1=Sheikh |first1=Hasina |last2=Sheikh |first2=Rehana |script-title=bn:শেখ রাসেল |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/11845/skeikh-rasel |access-date=22 August 2018 |language=bn |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822145436/https://www.rokomari.com/book/11845/skeikh-rasel |url-status=live}}
4. আমরা জনগণের কথা বলতে এসেছি (We Came Here to Speak for the People){{cite book |script-title=bn:আমরা জনগণের কথা বলতে এসেছি – পান্না কায়সার |last1=Sheikh |first1=Hasina |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/1814/amra-jonogoner-kotha-bolte-asehshi |access-date=22 August 2018 |language=bn |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822113857/https://www.rokomari.com/book/1814/amra-jonogoner-kotha-bolte-asehshi |url-status=live}}
5. আন্তর্জাতিক সম্পর্ক উন্নয়নে শেখ হাসিনা (Sheikh Hasina on Developing International relations){{cite book |last1=Sheikh |first1=Hasina |script-title=bn:আন্তর্জাতিক সম্পর্ক উন্নয়নে শেখ হাসিনা |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/6913/antorjatik-somporko-unnayone-sheikh-hasina |access-date=22 August 2018 |language=bn |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822113731/https://www.rokomari.com/book/6913/antorjatik-somporko-unnayone-sheikh-hasina |url-status=live}}
6. Living in Tears{{cite book |title=Living in Tears – Sheikh Hasina |last1=Sheikh |first1=Hasina |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/2356/living-in-tears |language=bn |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822113734/https://www.rokomari.com/book/2356/living-in-tears |url-status=live}}
7. রচনাসমগ্র ১{{cite book |script-title=bn:রচনাসমগ্র ১ |last1=Sheikh |first1=Hasina |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/4988/rochnasamogro-1 |language=bn |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822113756/https://www.rokomari.com/book/4988/rochnasamogro-1 |url-status=live}}
8. রচনাসমগ্র ২{{cite book |script-title=bn:রচনাসমগ্র ২ |last1=Sheikh |first1=Hasina |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/4990/rochnasamagro-2 |language=bn |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822145423/https://www.rokomari.com/book/4990/rochnasamagro-2 |url-status=live}}
9. সামরিকতন্ত্র বনাম গণতন্ত্র (Militarism versus Democracy){{cite book |script-title=bn:সামরিকতন্ত্র বনাম গণতন্ত্র |last1=Sheikh |first1=Hasina |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/6909/samoriktontro-bonam-gonotontro |language=bn |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822113853/https://www.rokomari.com/book/6909/samoriktontro-bonam-gonotontro |url-status=live}}
10. Development for the Masses{{cite book |title=Development for the masses |last1=Sheikh |first1=Hasina |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/47718/development-for-the-masses |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822113709/https://www.rokomari.com/book/47718/development-for-the-masses |url-status=live}}
11. Democracy Poverty Elimination and Peace{{cite book |title=Democracy proverty elimination and peace |last1=Sheikh |first1=Hasina |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/2358/democracy-proverty-elimination-and-peace |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822113712/https://www.rokomari.com/book/2358/democracy-proverty-elimination-and-peace |url-status=live}}
12. বিপন্ন গণতন্ত্র লাঞ্চিত মানবতা (Endangered Democracy, Oppressed Humanity){{cite book |script-title=bn:বিপন্ন গণতন্ত্র লাঞ্চিত মানবতা |last1=Sheikh |first1=Hasina |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/2352/biponno-gonotontro--lancito-manobota |language=bn |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822113759/https://www.rokomari.com/book/2352/biponno-gonotontro--lancito-manobota |url-status=live}}
13. জনগণ এবং গণতন্ত্র (People and democracy){{cite book |script-title=bn:জণগণ এবং গণতন্ত্র |last1=Sheikh |first1=Hasina |title=People and Democracy – Sheikh Hasina |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/2191/people-and-democracy |language=bn |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822145541/https://www.rokomari.com/book/2191/people-and-democracy |url-status=live}}
14. সহেনা মানবতার অবমাননা (Can't Tolerate the Insults of Humanity){{cite book |script-title=bn:সহেনা মানবতার অবমাননা |last1=Sheikh |first1=Hasina |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/2187/sohena-manobotar-obomanona |language=bn |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822145455/https://www.rokomari.com/book/2187/sohena-manobotar-obomanona |url-status=live}}
15. ওরা টোকাই কেন (Why They Are Dumpster Diving){{cite book |script-title=bn:ওরা টোকাই কেন |last1=Sheikh |first1=Hasina |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/2186/ora-tokai-keno |language=bn |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822145452/https://www.rokomari.com/book/2186/ora-tokai-keno |url-status=live}}
16. বাংলাদেশে স্বৈরতন্ত্রের জন্ম (The Birth of Autocracy in Bangladesh){{cite book |script-title=bn:বাংলাদেশে স্বৈরতন্ত্রের জন্ম |last1=Sheikh |first1=Hasina |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/2185/bangladeshe-soirotontrer-jonmo |language=bn |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822113831/https://www.rokomari.com/book/2185/bangladeshe-soirotontrer-jonmo |url-status=live}}
17. বাংলাদেশ জাতীয় সংসদে বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান (Sheikh Mujib in Bangladesh Parliament){{cite book |script-title=bn:বাংলাদেশ জাতীয় সংসদে বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান |last1=Sheikh |first1=Hasina |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/2192/bangladesh-jatiyo-songsode-bongobandhu-sheikh-mujibur-rahman |language=bn |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822113723/https://www.rokomari.com/book/2192/bangladesh-jatiyo-songsode-bongobandhu-sheikh-mujibur-rahman |url-status=live}}
18. শেখ মুজিব আমার পিতা (Sheikh Mujib: My Father){{cite book |script-title=bn:শেখ মুজিব আমার পিতা |last1=Sheikh |first1=Hasina |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/93738/sheikh-mujib-amar-pita |language=bn |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822113823/https://www.rokomari.com/book/93738/sheikh-mujib-amar-pita |url-status=live}}
19. সবুজ মাঠ পেরিয়ে (Beyond the Green Field){{cite book |script-title=bn:সবুজ মাঠ পেরিয়ে |last1=Sheikh |first1=Hasina |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/4621/sobuj-math-periye |language=bn |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822113821/https://www.rokomari.com/book/4621/sobuj-math-periye |url-status=live}}
20. দারিদ্র দূরীকরণে কিছু চিন্তাভাবনা (Few Thoughts on Eradicating Poverty){{cite book |script-title=bn:দারিদ্র দূরীকরণে কিছু চিন্তাভাবনা |last1=Sheikh |first1=Hasina |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/2353/dareddro-durekaron--kishu-cintavabna |language=bn |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822113804/https://www.rokomari.com/book/2353/dareddro-durekaron--kishu-cintavabna |url-status=live}}
21. বিশ্ব প্রামান্য ঐতিহ্যে বঙ্গবন্ধুর ভাষণ{{cite book |script-title=bn:বিশ্ব প্রামান্য ঐতিহ্যে বঙ্গবন্ধুর ভাষণ |last1=Sheikh |first1=Hasina |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/168042/bishwa-pramano-oitijjey-bangabandhur-vashon |language=bn |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822113611/https://www.rokomari.com/book/168042/bishwa-pramano-oitijjey-bangabandhur-vashon |url-status=live}}
22. নির্বাচিত ১০০ ভাষণ (Selected 100 speeches){{cite book |script-title=bn:নির্বাচিত ১০০ ভাষণ |last1=Sheikh |first1=Hasina |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/158949/nirbachito-100-vason--2014-2017- |language=bn |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822145505/https://www.rokomari.com/book/158949/nirbachito-100-vason--2014-2017- |url-status=live}}
23. নির্বাচিত প্রবন্ধ (Selected Essay){{cite book |script-title=bn:নির্বাচিত প্রবন্ধ |last1=Sheikh |first1=Hasina |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/127766/nirbachito-probondho |language=bn |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822145523/https://www.rokomari.com/book/127766/nirbachito-probondho |url-status=live}}
24. The Quest for Vision 2021 – 1st Part{{cite book |title=The quest for vision 2021 1st-part |last1=Sheikh |first1=Hasina |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/10775/the-quest-for-vision-2021--1st-part- |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822113807/https://www.rokomari.com/book/10775/the-quest-for-vision-2021--1st-part- |url-status=live}}
25. The Quest for Vision 2021 – 2nd Part{{cite book |title=The-quest-for-vision-2021—2nd-part |last1=Sheikh |first1=Hasina |url=https://www.rokomari.com/book/91108/the-quest-for-vision-2021-2nd-volume-- |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822145433/https://www.rokomari.com/book/91108/the-quest-for-vision-2021-2nd-volume-- |url-status=live}}
26. Muktidata Sheikh Mujib ({{langx|bn|মুক্তিদাতা শেখ মুজিব}}) (Preface){{cite news |title='মুক্তিদাতা শেখ মুজিব' গ্রন্থের মোড়ক উন্মোচন করলেন প্রধানমন্ত্রী {{!}} কালের কণ্ঠ |url=https://www.kalerkantho.com/online/corporatecorner/2022/03/14/1129084 |access-date=14 March 2022 |work=Kalerkantho |date=14 March 2022 |language=bn |archive-date=14 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314163517/https://www.kalerkantho.com/online/corporatecorner/2022/03/14/1129084 |url-status=live}}

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