The judicial process which sentenced a Bangladeshi former prime minister to death - and her niece, British MP Tulip Siddiq, to two years in prison - has been criticised by human rights lawyers.

Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal last month sentenced Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to death in absentia for crimes against humanity related to the 2024 crackdown by the Awami League government on student-led protests in the country. Some 1,400 people were killed in the 'July revolution' which led to the downfall of the Hasina government.

Siddiq, Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate and a former Treasury minister, was sentenced in her absence by the same tribunal for corruption relating to the allocation of a plot of land. She has denied any wrongdoing.