Labour MP Tulip Siddiq sentenced to two years in prison by Bangladeshi court

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Labour MP Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced by a court in Bangladesh to two years in prison for corruption involving a government land project.Her aunt, ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, was sentenced to five years.Ms Siddiq, who is MP for Hampstead and Highgate in London, has denied the allegations.

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00:00It just shows how this campaign resonates with our local community here in West Hampstead

00:04and generally in the country because it's so unjust that a young mother with her daughter

00:10is separated from her husband and father.

00:13What she did ask the Prime Minister is whether he would consider giving evidence to the Foreign

00:17Affairs Select Committee which is doing an inquiry into Nazneen's case and why it took

00:21so long.

00:22She really regrets that and it's plain that you can see she thinks about it all the time.

00:28So it's a rebuilding of the family and they have a very supportive community in West Hampstead.

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