India, Nov. 27 -- A group of the UK's high-profile lawyers and legal experts have warned against the consequences of an "unfair and contrived" trial that Labour Party member of Parliament Tulip Siddiq has been subjected to in Bangladesh. Siddiq, a niece of Bangladesh's deposed PM Sheikh Hasina, had resigned as a Treasury minister in British PM Keir Starmer's Cabinet earlier this year.
A trial against her began in Dhaka in August, with a verdict of Bangladesh's Anti-Corruption Commission expected later this week. In a letter addressed to Bangladeshi High Commissioner to the UK Abida Islam, lawyers including Cherie the wife of former UK prime minister Tony Blair and former ministers Robert Buckland and Dominic Grieve, have expressed concerns...