{"id":75422,"date":"2025-12-01T16:48:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/01\/what-led-to-bangladesh-trial-of-former-uk-minister-tulip-siddiq"},"modified":"2025-12-01T16:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:58:16","slug":"what-led-to-bangladesh-trial-of-former-uk-minister-tulip-siddiq-in-her-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75422","title":{"rendered":"What led to Bangladesh trial of former UK minister Tulip Siddiq in her absence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate says she has not been informed of charges against her<\/p>\n<p>Tulip Siddiq, the Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate, has been sentenced to two years in jail by a court in Bangladesh, over allegations of corruption linked to her aunt, the country\u2019s ousted former prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Siddiq denies all the allegations and says she has not been informed of the charges against her or given access to legal representation. The prosecution is seeking a maximum life sentence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/01\/what-led-to-bangladesh-trial-of-former-uk-minister-tulip-siddiq\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate says she has not been informed of charges against herTulip Siddiq, the Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate, has been sentenced to two years in jail by a court in Bangladesh, over allegations of corruption linked to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5087,"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":[327,215,4,2816,61,3451,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-london","category-politics","category-sheikh-hasina","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/75422","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\/5087"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75439,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75422\/revisions\/75439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}