UK lawmaker Tulip Siddiq handed jail sentence in absentia in Bangladesh graft case


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  • Monday, 01 Dec 2025

MP Tulip Siddiq attends a news conference in London, Britain October 11, 2019. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

DHAKA/LONDON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - A Bangladesh court sentenced British lawmaker and former minister Tulip Siddiq in absentia to two years in jail on Monday in a corruption case involving the alleged illegal allocation of a plot of land, prosecutors said.

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is Siddiq's aunt, was sentenced in absentia to five years in jail and her sister Rehana to seven.

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