A Dhaka court sentenced Sheikh Rehana, sister of ousted PM Sheikh Hasina, to 7 years in prison for corruption over illegal land grabs in Dhaka’s Purbachal project, while her daughter Tulip Siddiq, a British Labour MP, got 2 years for pressuring allocations via encrypted chats and meetings. Hasina, already facing death penalty for protest crackdowns, received 5 years alongside 14 officials; all fined $813 with plot cancellations ordered. Siddiq calls it a ‘farce’ and ‘persecution,’ as Bangladesh notifies UK amid Hasina’s exile in India and interim govt push for her extradition.
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