{"id":75321,"date":"2025-11-25T19:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/25\/uk-lawyers-condemn-bangladesh-trial-london-labour-mp-tulip-siddiq"},"modified":"2025-11-25T19:00:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:00:30","slug":"leading-lawyers-condemn-contrived-bangladesh-trial-of-former-uk-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75321","title":{"rendered":"Leading lawyers condemn \u2018contrived\u2019 Bangladesh trial of former UK minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: High-profile lawyers suggest ex-City minister Tulip Siddiq has not enjoyed basic rights during her trial in absentia<\/p>\n<p>The trial in Bangladesh of the former UK City minister Tulip Siddiq has been \u201ccontrived and unfair\u201d, leading lawyers including a former Conservative justice secretary have told Bangladesh\u2019s ambassador before Thursday\u2019s verdict.<\/p>\n<p>Siddiq, who resigned from the UK government in January, is due to receive her verdict and sentence in absentia, with the prosecution seeking a maximum life sentence term.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/25\/uk-lawyers-condemn-bangladesh-trial-london-labour-mp-tulip-siddiq\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: High-profile lawyers suggest ex-City minister Tulip Siddiq has not enjoyed basic rights during her trial in absentiaThe trial in Bangladesh of the former UK City minister Tulip Siddiq has been \u201ccontrived and unfair\u201d, leading lawyers includin&#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":[327,53,902,86,2816,3451,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-human-rights","category-labour","category-law","category-sheikh-hasina","category-tulip-siddiq","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\/75321","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=75321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75322,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75321\/revisions\/75322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}