Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh's ousted prime minister, has declared she will return to her country in December despite facing a death sentence there, marking the second anniversary of the student-led uprising that ended her 15-year rule with her most public statement since fleeing Dhaka.

Speaking via audio link to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of South Asia in New Delhi on Wednesday — the very day Bangladesh commemorated the 2024 revolution — the 78-year-old told reporters: