Labour MP Tulip Siddiq sentenced to two years in prison at corruption trial in Bangladesh | World News

Labour MP Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced to two years in jail in absentia in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Ms Siddiq was accused of obtaining plots of land from her aunt, the country’s former prime minister, in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone, through “abuse of power and influence”.

She was being tried in absentia.

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