Sheikh Hasina’s Neice And British MP Tulip Siddiq Receives 2 Year Prison Sentence In Corruption Case

Hasina's niece has been accused of unlawfully acquiring government land in Bangladesh.

A court in Dhaka has recently sentenced Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to five years in prison. Her niece, Tulip Siddiq, who is also a member of the British Parliament, has been sentenced to two years in prison for corruption in a case involving the acquisition of government land. Hasina’s niece was found guilty of influencing Hasina to help her mother acquire a plot in Dhaka by corrupt means. Read on to know more.

Sheikh Hasina’s Niece, Tulip Siddiq, Sentenced To 2 Years In Prison

The judge who has charged Tulip Siddiq said that she used corrupt means to influence the former Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, to help her mother and siblings get a plot in a government project in Dhaka. Tulip’s mother, Sheikh Rehana, has also been sentenced to seven years in prison along with a fine of 100,000 taka (INR 73,407). Failure to pay the fine would result in an additional six months in prison, announced the court. Another 14 people have also been listed as suspects in the case.

Responding to the verdict, Tulip Siddiq called her imprisonment unjustified. “The whole process has been flawed and farcical from the beginning to the end,” she said. The British MP said that she hopes that this verdict against her will be treated with the contempt it deserves. She said that her focus has always been on her British constituents in Hampstead and Highgate and refuses to be distracted by the politics of Bangladesh.

Tulip, who represents London’s Hampstead and Highgate areas in Britain’s Parliament, had earlier denied allegations of being involved in the corruption case and pressed that the trial was built on fabricated accusations.

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Sheikh Hasina, on the other hand, was sentenced to death in November for crimes against humanity, which involved the brutal crackdown of the student protests that toppled Hasina’s government last year after a rule of 15 years. She now lives in exile in India, and all the trials involving her have been conducted in absentia.

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First Published: December 01, 2025 8:53 PM