Bangladesh court sentences former PM's sister, UK lawmaker
The Peninsula
Dhaka, Bangladesh: A Bangladesh court has sentenced sister of former premier Sheikh Hasina, Sheikh Rehana to seven years in prison Monday for corrupti...
Dhaka, Bangladesh: A Bangladesh court has sentenced sister of former premier Sheikh Hasina, Sheikh Rehana to seven years in prison Monday for corruption in a case involving the grabbing of lucrative plots in the capital.
Rehana's daughter, Tulip Siddiq, who is a British lawmaker, was handed a two-year sentence in the same case, said prosecutor for the Anti-Corruption Commission, Khan Mainul Hasan.
Hasina, who was given the death penalty for crimes against humanity last month, and 14 other government officials were condemned to five years of imprisonment.
Siddiq, who resigned as British anti-corruption minister in January after being named in graft probes in Bangladesh, has called the trial a "persecution and a farce".
Prosecutor for the Anti-Corruption Commission, Khan Hasan said they had details of Siddiq's correspondence with the principal secretary to the then prime minister, Salahuddin Ahmed, exposing her role in the case.
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