WATCH: Tulip Siddiq hits out at 'trial by media' after Bangladesh sentencing

Tulip Siddiq said she is “absolutely baffled” after being sentenced to two years in jail in Bangladesh, insisting she has had “no contact whatsoever” from authorities despite “malicious allegations” for 18 months. She said a lawyer she hired in Bangladesh was “intimidated and threatened,” while her request to meet the country’s leader, Muhammad Yunus, was declined.Ms Siddiq stressed she has received “no summons, no charge sheet, no correspondence,” saying: “I’m not difficult to find, I’m a parliamentarian.”She said she feels trapped in a “Kafka’s nightmare,” learning of her supposed conviction only from newspapers and condemning it as “trial by media.”WATCH THE CLIP ABOVE FOR MORE