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A Bangladesh court has sentenced British MP Tulip Siddiq to two years in jail, in a corruption case over the alleged illegal allocation of land linked to her aunt, former PM Sheikh Hasina.

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00:00Former Bangladesh leader Sheikh Hasina's inner circle is facing new legal pressure in Bangladesh
00:06and that now includes her niece, British MP Tulip Siddiq.
00:11A Dhaka court has sentenced Siddiq to two years in prison in a corruption case
00:15linked to the alleged illegal allocation of land.
00:19Hasina and her sister Sheikh Rehana, who were co-accused in the same case, received five and seven years.
00:26Bangladesh prosecutors said Hasina misused her power as Prime Minister
00:33while Siddiq was guilty of corruptly influencing her aunt
00:36in helping her mother Rehana get a piece of land in a government project during Hasina's time in office.
00:44All three were tried in absentia.
00:46Tulip Siddiq, who resigned from the UK government in January after scrutiny of her financial links to Hasina,
00:52has rejected delegations as politically motivated.
00:55Britain has no extradition treaty with Bangladesh.
00:59Hasina has been in India since fleeing an uprising in August last year.
01:03She was sentenced to death last month over a deadly crackdown on protesters
01:08and given a further 21 years in other corruption cases just last week.
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