Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina and British MP
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Ex–Prime Minister Hasina Gets Five Years as British MP Niece Also Jailed
A Dhaka court handed down prison sentences Monday to former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, and her niece — British Labour Party MP Tulip Siddiq — in a corruption case that has escalated tensions between Bangladesh’s interim government and Hasina’s political allies at home and abroad.
A court in Bangladesh has sentenced British Labour MP Tulip Siddiq to two years in prison for corruption involving a government land project, alongside ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who is Siddiq's aunt.
A Bangladesh court sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her niece, UK MP Tulip Siddiq, in a land scam case. Hasina received a five-year term, Siddiq two years, and Hasina's sister seven years.
A Bangladeshi court has sentenced Sheikh Hasina to five years in jail in a fourth corruption case. Details are inside.
The former prime minister, who is living in exile in India, was tried in her absence over a deadly crackdown on protests last year.
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For the Hasina family, this period marks yet another cycle of exile, separation, and uncertainty -- a story that has repeated itself across generations in Bangladesh’s turbulent political history.