Former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina gets 10-year jail term, while her British MP niece Tulip Siddiq receives four years in separate corruption cases.
DHAKA: A Bangladesh court has sentenced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina (pic) to 10 years in jail in a corruption case.
Her British lawmaker niece, Tulip Siddiq, received a four-year prison term in a separate case.
The convictions relate to irregularities in the allocation of land plots under the RAJUK New Town Project near Dhaka, according to local media reports.
Judge Robiul Alam of Dhaka’s Special Judge Court-4 also sentenced Siddiq’s sister Azmina and brother Radwan Mujib Siddiq to seven years each in one of the cases.
The verdicts were delivered during the campaign for Bangladesh’s first parliamentary elections since Hasina resigned and fled to India in August 2024.
Her Awami League party is barred from participating in the February 12 election.
The main contenders are the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and a multi-party alliance led by the National Citizen Party and Jamaat-e-Islami.
Hasina is facing hundreds of cases linked to a 2024 mass uprising that left 1,400 people dead and thousands injured.
Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal last year sentenced her to death on charges of crimes against humanity.
