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Passports of 97 individuals including Sheikh Hasina cancelled

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Published: 21:16, 7 January 2025   Update: 21:22, 7 January 2025
Passports of 97 individuals including Sheikh Hasina cancelled

Sheikh Hasina

The Bangladesh government has cancelled  passports of 97 individuals including  ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Among them, passports of 22 more individuals have been cancelled on charge of their involvement in enforced disappearances and killings and 75 individuals on charge of their involvement in July-August genocide.

Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary Azad Mazumder disclosed this at a press briefing at Foreign Service Academy in the capital on Tuesday (January 7) evening.

Azad Mazumder said there is no scope of keeping more than one passport lawfully. The cancellation of passports means cancellation of diplomatic passports.

 

NH/Mukul