মানবতাবিরোধী অপরাধে দণ্ডিত পলাতক শেখ হাসিনা ১০ জুলাই রয়টার্সকে দেওয়া সাক্ষাৎকারে ডিসেম্বরে বাংলাদেশে ‘ফিরে আসতে’ আগ্রহী বলে জানিয়েছেন। শেখ হাসিনা একে ‘দেশে ফেরা’ এবং তিনি ‘ফিরে আত্মসমর্পণ’ করবেন বলে বর্ণনা করলেও আইনি এবং বাস্তব পরিস্থিতি এর দুটোর কোনোটিই এ ক্ষেত্রে প্রয়োগযোগ্য নয়।

# Translation Over 1,000 leaders and activists, including 11 top leaders, were killed in cold blood, and despite the seizure of houses and business establishments, Jamaat-e-Islami did not compromise with the previous government, said opposition leader and Amir of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Shafiqur Rahman. The Jamaat Amir said, "We never compromised secretly with anyone at night. We did not go out onto the streets during the day and shout, and we never took permission from the autocracy to go onto the streets.

After the attack in Habiganj, today in Sylhet too, referring to an attack on the National Citizens Party (NCP) motorcade, the party's member secretary Akhtar Hosen said that they are being continuously attacked. Through this, a terrible and horrific environment has been created. Alif Chowdhury, a local leader of the National Student Power who suffered eye injuries in last Tuesday's attack in Habiganj, is undergoing treatment at the National Institute of Ophthalmology Hospital in Agargaon, Dhaka.