Tulip Siddiq has strongly denied the claims and is unlikely to serve the sentence.Nicola Tree/Getty Images

British MP given two-year Bangladesh prison sentence in her absence – POLITICO

01 Dec 2025, 07:43 by Annabelle Dickson · POLITICO

LONDON — British MP Tulip Siddiq has been handed a two-year prison sentence in Bangladesh in her absence following a corruption trial she did not attend.

Siddiq, a former U.K. minister, was found guilty of influencing her aunt, Bangladesh’s ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, to secure a plot of land for her family in the outskirts of the capital Dhaka, according to a BBC report of the trial.

Siddiq, a former U.K. Treasury minister, has strongly denied the claims and is unlikely to serve the sentence. She is based in London and is the MP for the London constituency of Hampstead and Highgate.