Labour MP Tulip Siddiq

• IN your report (Labour’s civil war continues as it suspends branch chair, December 3) you quote Labour MP Tulip Siddiq saying: “I am angry and saddened that clear instructions from Labour HQ were deliberately ignored at a meeting of my local CLP in order to debate…”.

I myself am angry and saddened by Ms Siddiq’s apparent indifference to the case of the British Bangladeshi barrister, Ahmad Bin Quasem, who was forcibly abducted from his home by Bangladeshi government security forces, more than three years ago.

Ahmad Bin Quasem had been representing his father Mir Quasem Ali, who was hanged in 2016, before the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) of Bangladesh, which was set up in 2010 by the ruling Awami League and prime minister Sheikh Hasina (Tulip Siddiq’s aunt).

In a Channel 4 interview with Ms Siddiq, when she was asked to use her influence to release Mr Bin Quasem, she exempted herself from interfering in Bangladeshi politics in spite of pleas from Bin Quasem’s barrister and family.

Ms Siddiq surely would agree that British values are based on freedom of expression and debate. As a British MP how can she be angry and saddened by a debate?

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