>Former minister and Labour MP Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced to four years in prison for corruption charges by a court in Bangladesh, in a process the Labour Party has criticised as unfair.
>The court also sentenced Siddiq’s aunt, the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and two other family members to varying prison terms in separate corruption cases.
>The defendants, who were tried in absentia, denied the charges.
>Responding to the sentences, a Labour Party spokesman said: “Tulip Siddiq has not had access to a fair legal process in this case and has never been informed of the details of the charges against her.”
Sometimes the truth really is in the middle. The trial process in Bangladesh has been carried out by the people who overthrew Sheikh Hasina’s government; it’s not a free or fair trial and has a clear element of political vendetta. But at the same time the evidence does show that Hasina was a corrupt dictator and that her neice benefited from the spoils of her regime.
The constant hatchet jobs against Labour will never cease, somethings really off with this story – I just can’t believe a minister would be involved as they say, and a Labour minister at that; not a chance.
It wouldn’t surprise me to learn of rank corruption in Bangladeshi courts being used to attack our parliamentarians.
She definitely seems dodgy with her ‘gifted’ properties and grace and favour usage of others. We don’t need more political corruption in the UK with foreign money.
That’s sounds like another Parliamentary by-election is on the cards. This time in the very affluent and very socially liberal Hampstead and Kilburn constituency. I imagine that the Green Party or the Liberal Democrat’s would have an excellent chance of a gain here.
If I were Starmer, I’d be concerned about a potential leadership challenge.
“Anyone facing any charge should always be afforded the right to make legal representations when allegations are made against them.”
Labour should shut up. What does this have to do with the party? This is a personal matter for her and, if allegations that she is a Bangladeshi citizen are true, then as per dual-national convention one state of nationality should not get involved in her problems with the other state.
Race and ethnicity-based recruitment often ends up choosing the privileged or even corrupted ones in their own circles. Not truly surprising. I’d rather see more politicians from actual [working class backgrounds](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx27n1z7j70o).
She refused to attend the trial in Bangladesh and is now claiming that, because of that, she didn’t the opportunity to defend herself?
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>Former minister and Labour MP Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced to four years in prison for corruption charges by a court in Bangladesh, in a process the Labour Party has criticised as unfair.
>The court also sentenced Siddiq’s aunt, the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and two other family members to varying prison terms in separate corruption cases.
>The defendants, who were tried in absentia, denied the charges.
>Responding to the sentences, a Labour Party spokesman said: “Tulip Siddiq has not had access to a fair legal process in this case and has never been informed of the details of the charges against her.”
Sometimes the truth really is in the middle. The trial process in Bangladesh has been carried out by the people who overthrew Sheikh Hasina’s government; it’s not a free or fair trial and has a clear element of political vendetta. But at the same time the evidence does show that Hasina was a corrupt dictator and that her neice benefited from the spoils of her regime.
The constant hatchet jobs against Labour will never cease, somethings really off with this story – I just can’t believe a minister would be involved as they say, and a Labour minister at that; not a chance.
It wouldn’t surprise me to learn of rank corruption in Bangladeshi courts being used to attack our parliamentarians.
She definitely seems dodgy with her ‘gifted’ properties and grace and favour usage of others. We don’t need more political corruption in the UK with foreign money.
That’s sounds like another Parliamentary by-election is on the cards. This time in the very affluent and very socially liberal Hampstead and Kilburn constituency. I imagine that the Green Party or the Liberal Democrat’s would have an excellent chance of a gain here.
If I were Starmer, I’d be concerned about a potential leadership challenge.
“Anyone facing any charge should always be afforded the right to make legal representations when allegations are made against them.”
Labour should shut up. What does this have to do with the party? This is a personal matter for her and, if allegations that she is a Bangladeshi citizen are true, then as per dual-national convention one state of nationality should not get involved in her problems with the other state.
Race and ethnicity-based recruitment often ends up choosing the privileged or even corrupted ones in their own circles. Not truly surprising. I’d rather see more politicians from actual [working class backgrounds](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx27n1z7j70o).
She refused to attend the trial in Bangladesh and is now claiming that, because of that, she didn’t the opportunity to defend herself?