00:00I'm absolutely baffled by the whole thing. I've still had no contact whatsoever from the Bangladeshi authorities despite them spreading malicious allegations against me for a year and a half now. I've tried to be responsible. I've engaged lawyers here in the UK who have repeatedly written to the Bangladeshi authorities but they haven't responded.
00:21I then tried to engage a lawyer in Bangladesh itself who went and tried to find out what was happening in court. They intimidated him and threatened him and he withdrew. I then wrote to the leader of Bangladesh currently who is Professor Muhammad Yunus when he came to London who has said publicly a few times that I'm guilty and had tried to smear my reputation so I said to him okay let's sit down let's have a coffee and let's talk about what I've done wrong because I know I haven't done anything wrong.
00:49He declined to meet me. So there's been absolutely no someone sent to me. There's no charge sheet. I've had no correspondence from them. I'm not difficult to find. I'm a parliamentarian.
01:00All they had to do is send some papers to the House of Commons to Parliament and I would have responded. So I feel like I'm in some sort of Kafkaesque nightmare where I'm carrying on doing my day job but on the other hand I'm apparently being convicted in Bangladesh and the only reason I know I'm being convicted
01:18is because I read it in the newspapers. So this is trial by media which is deeply unfair.
