Tulip Siddiq Sentenced to Prison for the Second Time in Bangladesh, Labour Party Criticises Trial Process
A Bangladeshi court has sentenced UK Labour Party MP and former minister Tulip Siddiq to four years in prison for the second time in a corruption case. The Labour Party has criticised the trial process, calling it unfair and flawed. British news outlet BBC reported the news.
Human rights lawyers condemn the trial process against Sheikh Hasina and Tulip
International human rights lawyers have strongly criticised and condemned the judicial process that led to the sentencing of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her niece, British MP Tulip Siddiq.
British MP Tulip Siddiq calls the court verdict a ‘farce’
Sheikh Hasina’s niece, British MP Tulip Siddiq, has said that the process in which the trial in Bangladesh was completed in her absence over allegations of plot corruption was “flawed and farcical.”
British MP Tulip Siddiq sentenced to 2 years in prison
British Labour Party MP Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced to two years in prison by Dhaka’s Fourth Special Judge Court in the much-discussed Purbachal “plot corruption” case in Bangladesh. In the verdict delivered on Monday by Judge Robiul Alam, Tulip’s mother Sheikh Rehana was sentenced to seven years in prison for “corruption” involving the allocation of a 10-katha plot, and her aunt, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was sentenced to five years of rigorous imprisonment. Other accused in the same case were also sentenced to five years each.
‘Plot Forgery’: Five British Lawyers Condemn Trial Process Against Tulip Siddiq
Ahead of the verdict in the fraud case against British MP Tulip Siddiq over plot allocations in the Purbachal New Town Project, five top lawyers in the United Kingdom have strongly criticised the trial process.
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