Bangladesh courtroom sentences UK MP Tulip Siddiq to 2 years jail in absentia | Tulip Siddiq

A Bangladesh courtroom has sentenced British MP and former minister Tulip Siddiq to 2 years in jail, in a corruption case involving the alleged unlawful allocation of a plot of land.

Siddiq, who serves as an MP for Hampstead and Highgate in London, had denied the allegations and the trial was performed in her absence.

The courtroom additionally sentenced her aunt, ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, to 5 years in jail. Final month Hasina was sentenced to loss of life in absentia by a courtroom in Dhaka for crimes in opposition to humanity over a lethal crackdown on a student-led rebellion final 12 months.

On Monday, Rabiul Alam, the decide of Dhaka’s particular decide’s courtroom, stated Hasina misused her energy as prime minister, whereas Siddiq was responsible of corruptly influencing her aunt in serving to her mom get a bit of land in a authorities undertaking. Siddiq’s mom, Sheikh Rehana, was given seven years in jail and was thought-about the prime participant within the case.

Final week a bunch of main attorneys together with a former Conservative justice secretary instructed Bangladesh’s ambassador that the trial in opposition to Siddiq has been “contrived and unfair”.

Hasina has been in exile in India since she was ousted by a mass rebellion final 12 months. The trial and others in opposition to her had been performed in absentia.

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