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A Bangladesh court has sentenced Labour MP Tulip Siddiq to two years in prison after finding her guilty of corruption over a government land project.
Dhaka's Special Judge's Court found Ms Siddiq guilty of corruptly influencing her aunt, the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, to help her mother acquire a piece of land in the suburbs of the Bangladeshi capital.
Ms Siddiq's mother, Sheikh Rehana, was given seven years in prison, while Ms Hasina was sentenced to five years in prison.
All were tried in absentia and the MP for Hampstead and Highgate, who denied the allegations, is unlikely to serve the sentence.
Ms Siddiq faces a number of cases in Bangladesh, which prompted her to resign as Keir Starmer’s anti-corruption minister in January this year.
Ms Hasina, who fled to India in August last year amid massive anti-government protests, has already been awarded a death sentence by a tribunal court in Bangladesh for committing crimes against humanity.
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