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Tulip threatens pregnant journalist for questioning Hasina’s autocratic activities

British MP Tulip Siddique threatened or intimidated a journalist for questioning Hasina’s autocratic activities when she was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. The journalist was pregnant at the time. Tulip commented on her physical condition. The video from 2017 is coming to the fore again after her name was brought up in connection with the corruption of the Awami League and the Sheikh family in Bangladesh.

 

 

The video was posted by the British media The Telegraph on Friday (January 10) and published. Tulip Siddique is a member of the Labour Party in the British Parliament and is currently the Economic Secretary of the UK Ministry of Finance. She is the daughter of Sheikh Hasina’s sister Sheikh Rehana. In the video, the journalist is seen asking Tulip about the case of Barrister Arman, a British-Bangladeshi lawyer who disappeared during Sheikh Hasina’s regime. In response, Tulip is heard telling the journalist to be very careful.

 

Tulip said in a threatening tone, “I am a Labour MP for Hampstead and Kilburn. I am a British Member of Parliament. Be very careful. I am not Bangladeshi and I have no idea about the cases you are talking about. That is the end of my statement.” At the end, Tulip told pregnant journalist and producer Daisy Ayliffe, “Thank you for coming here, Daisy. I hope your baby is well. Because childbirth is very difficult. See you later.”

 

One of her assistants then put her hand in front of the camera and told the journalists to stop filming. The assistant tried to distract the journalists from Tulip by calling the journalists’ questions irrelevant and reckless. Channel 4 News’ chief correspondent Alex Thomson described Tulip Siddique’s comments as seemingly threatening. The MP, on the other hand, later admitted that her words had been misinterpreted.

The victim journalist Ayliffe re-shared her experience in a post on X last week. He said, when I asked Tulip Siddique about her political links with Bangladesh in 2017, she told me to “be careful”. After this incident, the MP complained to Ofcom, the police and my bosses. However, no complaint was sustained. Because, fortunately, what actually happened was recorded on camera. If it had not been, he would have lost my job.

 

It does not end here. Tulip did not sit idly by as she could not lose her job as a journalist. It is alleged that she later used her power and administration to harass Arman’s wife. It is known that a journalist from the British media Channel 4 questioned Tulip, Sheikh Hasina’s sister’s daughter, about the missing Arman in 2017. Since Tulip was a British citizen and MP; the journalist thought that a phone call to Hasina might get Arman released. However, Tulip was furious with the journalist’s question.

 

 

In another report, Barrister Arman told the Financial Times, “After the interview, a few hours before the Channel 4 report was to be broadcast, law enforcement officers went to my house. They asked my wife to be quiet. They asked her about who in the foreign country my wife was in contact with. They harassed her as if she was being interrogated by a terrorist.” Barrister Arman also said, “The questioning of Tulip about me somehow hurt the Sheikh family. That is why the administration behaved like this.”

 

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