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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker and Jessica Elgot

Tulip Siddiq decries Bangladesh arrest warrant as ‘politically motivated smear’

Tulip Siddiq
Tulip Siddiq said the Bangladeshi authorities were subjecting her to ‘trial by media’. Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/Shutterstock

The former City minister Tulip Siddiq has said an arrest warrant issued against her in Bangladesh over allegations she illegally received a plot of land from her aunt, the country’s ousted former prime minister, is a “politically motivated smear campaign”.

Speaking to reporters on Monday, the Hampstead and Highgate MP said: “No one from the Bangladeshi authorities has contacted me. The entire time they’ve done trial by media. My lawyers proactively wrote to the Bangladeshi authorities, they never responded.

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