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MNA National Desk: British MP Tulip Siddiq has urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to release photojournalist and artist Shahidul Alam, reported news agency.
Tulip, the Labour MP for Hampstead and Kilburn, said the detention of Shahidul was “deeply distressing and should end immediately.”
Siddiq, eldest daughter of Sheikh Rehana, and niece of Prime Minister Hasina, joins a growing chorus of international condemnation of Shahidul Alam’s detention.
The British MP said: “Bangladesh must uphold international standards of justice in treating its own citizens.”
In a statement issued on Tuesday, she added: “I would hope our Foreign Office will convey that message in stark terms to a country that is seen as a close ally.”
