London Labour MP Tulip Siddiq given two-year prison sentence in Bangladesh
London Labour MP Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced to two years in prison in Bangladesh after being found guilty of corruption following a trial in her absence.
The ex-minister, who is MP for Hampstead and Highgate, was convicted of influencing her aunt, Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, to secure a plot of land for her family in the outskirts of the capital Dhaka.
The court in Dhaka also sentenced ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina to five years in prison for corruption involving the government land project.
Rabiul Alam, the judge of Dhaka’s Special Judge’s Court, said Ms Hasina misused her power as prime minister.
Siddiq was guilty of corruptly influencing her aunt in helping her mother get a piece of land.
The Labour MP’s mother, Sheikh Rehana, was given seven years in prison and was considered the prime participant in the case.
It involved the Purbachal New Town project in a suburb of Dhaka.
Hasina, who fled to neighbouring India in August 2024 at the height of an uprising against her government, was sentenced to death last month over her government’s violent crackdown on demonstrators during the protests.
Last week, she was handed a combined 21-year prison sentence in other corruption cases.
