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Bangladesh ex-premier Hasina’s daughter Saima Wazed quits WHO regional post

September 10, 2026

Saima Wazed Putul, daughter of ousted Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina, resigned Wednesday as World Health Organization Southeast Asia regional director following fraud investigations by the agency and Bangladeshi authorities.

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She is already on death row. Now ex-Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina is sentenced again over a graft scheme involving land plots, along with her son Sajeeb Wazed and daughter Saima Wazed Putul, who are also given prison sentences.

November 27, 2025

A Dhaka court on Thursday sentenced deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina to 21 years in prison in three cases tied to the Purbachal plot scam.