Tulip Siddiq, a former minister and Labour MP, was sentenced to two years in prison in Bangladesh after being tried in her absence together with sixteen other individuals on charges of corruption.
She was convicted guilty of persuading her aunt, Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, to secure a block of property for her family in the outskirts of the city Dhaka, an accusation she fiercely denies.
Siddiq, who is located in London and has contested the charges, is unlikely to serve the time. The Labour MP said the procedure had been “deficient and comical from the beginning to the end”.
I’m completely perplexed by the whole situation; even though the Bangladeshi government has been circulating false accusations about me for a year and a half, I have yet to receive any communication from them,” she remarked.
“There’s been nothing but invitation sent to me, there’s no penalty sheet, I’ve had no communications from them I’m not difficult to find, I’m a parliamentarian.” She stated she had recruited lawyers in the UK and Bangladesh. I feel like I’m in some type of Kafkaesque nightmare,” she added. I just found out about my conviction after reading about it in the headlines. So this is trial by media, which is terribly unfair.
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