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Malek Fouda

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her UK lawmaker niece sentenced in graft case

A court in Bangladesh sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to 10 years in prison on Monday, and her niece, Tulip Siddiq, who is a UK lawmaker, to four years, in two cases involving a government township project near the capital, Dhaka.

Judge Mohammed Rabiul Alam of the Special Judge’s Court-4 also handed down seven-year prison terms to another niece of Hasina’s, Azmina Siddiq, and nephew, Radwan Mujib Siddiq.

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