{"id":71058,"date":"2025-04-14T23:59:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/apr\/14\/tulip-siddiq-decries-bangladesh-arrest-warrant-as-politically-motivated-smear"},"modified":"2025-04-14T23:59:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:59:24","slug":"tulip-siddiq-decries-bangladesh-arrest-warrant-as-politically-motivated-smear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71058","title":{"rendered":"Tulip Siddiq decries Bangladesh arrest warrant as \u2018politically motivated smear\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former City minister denies allegations she received land illegally from her aunt, the ousted PM Sheikh Hasina<\/p>\n<p>The former City minister Tulip Siddiq has said an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/13\/tulip-siddiq-uk-mp-arrest-warrant-issued-bangladesh\">arrest warrant<\/a> issued against her in Bangladesh over allegations she illegally received a plot of land from her aunt, the country\u2019s ousted former prime minister, is a \u201cpolitically motivated smear campaign\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters on Monday, the Hampstead and Highgate MP said: \u201cNo one from the Bangladeshi authorities has contacted me. The entire time they\u2019ve done trial by media. My lawyers proactively wrote to the Bangladeshi authorities, they never responded.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/apr\/14\/tulip-siddiq-decries-bangladesh-arrest-warrant-as-politically-motivated-smear\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former City minister denies allegations she received land illegally from her aunt, the ousted PM Sheikh HasinaThe former City minister Tulip Siddiq has said an arrest warrant issued against her in Bangladesh over allegations she illegally received a pl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,902,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-labour","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71059,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71058\/revisions\/71059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}