00:00Hasina is in exile. She's living in India. She's in Delhi at the moment. And the big question is, will India actually extradite her? And no one seems to be 100% sure, but India have come out and said India remains committed to the best interests of the people of Bangladesh. We will always engage constructively with all stakeholders to that end. So we've heard from India's foreign ministry today in a statement.
00:29This is our second extradition order. The first one was for far less of a crime, contempt of court, which was in June of this year as well. And on that, they did not execute that extradition order. And India has got no obligation at all, aside from keeping the peace, to extradite someone to Bangladesh, especially to carry out a death sentence.
00:51When you take into consideration the humanitarian issue that's at bay here because of the fact that it was, and we don't know anything about the trial necessarily, but it was done in absentee, which means that she wasn't there to represent herself and didn't have representation.
01:03But she also defied court orders to go back and represent herself in India. So she wouldn't go back to the court. So she was invited, but didn't go back.
01:11But again, if you get invited back and you're held in court, you know exactly what's coming for you. You're not going to likely to do that.
01:17The question remains now what happens when the elections are upcoming, because if Bangladesh comes in with a brand new government, the elected government come into power.
01:24India wants to keep the peace. Yes, there is. They might bow. India might bow to political pressure and say, right, let's extradite her.
01:31Let's get rid of that problem. Is it likely to happen? Not so much.
01:34It's likely to see a whole stack of appeals that are on the way. Potentially she can go to The Hague with this.
01:39However, Bangladesh don't sign on to The Hague, to the Rome Accord that's there. So they don't actually, they're not bound by that.
01:45So it can't really be overturned by The Hague. So this will probably still stand depending on who comes into power next and who comes into government next.
01:52So it really is one of those things that we're not likely to see how it's going to play out unless there was an issue where you thought this is going to cause a diplomatic crisis.
02:00And therefore India would say, right, we need to move on this now. But a whole stack of questions will then be raised about, was it a fair trial?
02:07What went on behind closed doors? And that would need to be answered.
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