{"id":75424,"date":"2025-12-01T16:48:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/01\/bangladesh-court-sentences-uk-mp-tulip-siddiq-to-two-years-prison-in-absentia"},"modified":"2025-12-02T00:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:40:06","slug":"bangladesh-court-sentences-uk-mp-tulip-siddiq-to-two-years-in-prison-in-absentia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75424","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh court sentences UK MP Tulip Siddiq to two years in prison in absentia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MP for Hampstead and Highgate in London denies allegations and condemns \u2018flawed and farcical\u2019 trial<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/01\/what-led-to-bangladesh-trial-of-former-uk-minister-tulip-siddiq\">What led to Bangladesh trial of Tulip Siddiq in her absence?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A court in Bangladesh has sentenced the British MP Tulip Siddiq to two years in jail after a judge ruled she was complicit in corrupt land deals with her aunt, the country\u2019s deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina.<\/p>\n<p>In a ruling on Monday, a judge found Siddiq, the Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate, guilty of misusing her \u201cspecial influence\u201d as a British politician to coerce Hasina into giving valuable pieces of land to her mother, brother and sister.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/01\/bangladesh-court-sentences-uk-mp-tulip-siddiq-to-two-years-prison-in-absentia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MP for Hampstead and Highgate in London denies allegations and condemns \u2018flawed and farcical\u2019 trialWhat led to Bangladesh trial of Tulip Siddiq in her absence?A court in Bangladesh has sentenced the British MP Tulip Siddiq to two years in jail after a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"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":[327,902,215,4,61,3451,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-labour","category-london","category-politics","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\/75424","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75441,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75424\/revisions\/75441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}