{"id":73337,"date":"2025-08-10T16:52:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/aug\/10\/im-collateral-damage-ex-minister-tulip-siddiq-on-her-bangladesh-corruption-trial"},"modified":"2025-08-10T16:52:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:52:56","slug":"im-collateral-damage-ex-minister-tulip-siddiq-on-her-bangladesh-corruption-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73337","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m collateral damage\u2019: ex-minister Tulip Siddiq on her Bangladesh corruption trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: MP and niece of ousted Bangladesh prime minister says allegations against her are \u2018completely absurd\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no extradition treaty, I looked that up myself actually,\u201d says Tulip Siddiq, the MP for Hampstead and Highgate and a Treasury minister until her resignation in January.<\/p>\n<p>Just over a week ago, Siddiq, 42, a Keir Starmer loyalist, learned via a journalist who had contacted her lawyer that she had been formally indicted in Bangladesh for corruption.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/aug\/10\/im-collateral-damage-ex-minister-tulip-siddiq-on-her-bangladesh-corruption-trial\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: MP and niece of ousted Bangladesh prime minister says allegations against her are \u2018completely absurd\u2019\u201cThere\u2019s no extradition treaty, I looked that up myself actually,\u201d says Tulip Siddiq, the MP for Hampstead and Highgate and a Treasury minis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3457,"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":[327,902,3119,4,2816,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-labour","category-muhammad-yunus","category-politics","category-sheikh-hasina","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\/73337","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\/3457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73338,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73337\/revisions\/73338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}