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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Michael Howie and Nicholas Cecil

Tulip Siddiq hits out at 'flawed and farcical' corruption verdict as she gets jail sentence in Bangladesh

London Labour MP Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced to two years in prison in Bangladesh after being found guilty of corruption following a trial in her absence.

The ex-minister, who is MP for Hampstead and Highgate, was convicted of influencing her aunt, Bangladesh's ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, to secure a plot of land for her family in the outskirts of the capital Dhaka.

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