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Siddiq Given Second Bangladesh Jail Sentence As Labour Criticised Process. Former minister and Labour MP Tulip Siddiq was handed a four-year prison sentence on corruption charges by a court in Bangladesh, in a process the Labour Party said was unfair. The ruling followed a separate case in which the court also sentenced Siddiq’s aunt, former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, along with two other family members, to prison terms. All defendants were tried in absentia and denied the allegations. Labour said Siddiq had not been given access to a fair legal process and had never been informed of the full details of the charges despite repeated requests made through her legal team. The party says it cannot recognise the judgment. The sentence added to a two-year jail term imposed late last year, after Siddiq was found guilty of influencing her aunt over a land deal near Dhaka. Siddiq described the case as flawed from start to finish and said she had received no contact from Bangladeshi authorities. She stepped down as a UK Treasury minister in January 2025 following questions about her family links.
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