Labour MP Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced to two years in prison in Bangladesh after a corruption trial held in her absence.

Siddiq, the niece of former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina, was found guilty of influencing her aunt to secure a plot of land for her family in a government project.

Hasina, who was ousted in August last year, was sentenced to five years in prison.

The verdict comes two weeks after Hasina was sentenced to death in a separate trial in November over her role in a crackdown against protests that ended her 15-year rule last year. She fled to India before she could be arrested.

Siddiq, the sitting MP for Hampstead and Highgate in London, was tried in her absence and had earlier denied the allegations, claiming the trial was a farce built on “fabricated accus

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