15 h. ago Labour MP Tulip Siddiq says Bangladesh prison sentence is ‘Kafka

Dhaka court finds Siddiq guilty of corruptly influencing her aunt – the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina – to help her mother acquire a piece of land in suburbs of Bangladeshi capital

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31 h. ago Labour MP Tulip Siddiq says corruption verdict against her ‘flawed and farcical’

Tulip Siddiq said ‘I refuse to be distracted by the dirty politics of Bangladesh’.

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31 h. ago UK Labour MP Tulip Siddiq sentenced to two years in jail but will never serve it

Labour MP Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced to two years in prison by a Dhaka court for her role in a corruption case, but won't serve time due to lack of UK-Bangladesh extradition treaty

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34 h. ago Labour MP sentenced to two years in prison by Bangladeshi court after corruption trial

Labour MP Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced by a court in Bangladesh to two years in prison for corruption involving a government land project. Her aunt, ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, was sentenced to five years.

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35 h. ago Bangladesh court sentences UK MP Tulip Siddiq to two years in prison in absentia

Siddiq, who serves as an MP for Hampstead and Highgate in London, has denied the allegationsA court in Bangladesh has sentenced the British MP Tulip Siddiq to two years in jail after a judge ruled she was complicit in corrupt land deals with her aunt, the country’s deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina.In a ruling on Monday, a judge found Siddiq, the Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate, guilty of misusing her “special influence” as a British politician to coerce Hasina into giving valuable pieces of land to her mother, brother and sister. Continue reading...

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36 h. ago Labour MP Tulip Siddiq sentenced to two years in prison by Bangladeshi court

Ms Siddiq’s lawyers have called the charges baseless and politically motivated.

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36 h. ago Labour MP sentenced to two years in prison after major corruption scandal

Labour MP Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced to two years in prison by a Dhaka court for her role in a corruption case, but won't serve time due to lack of UK-Bangladesh extradition treaty

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