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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Answer

Adam Price: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to his Answer of 11 October 2004, Official Report, columns 755-6W, on Iraq, whom the British officials, told by Mr. Turki about his concerns in September 2003, informed about his representations; if he will list the British officials concerned; and whether Mr. Turki mentioned specific detention facilities. [194494] Mr. Rammell: [holding answer 28 October 2004]: Mr. Turki raised some general concerns in Baghdad in a meeting with my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister's Special Envoy on Human Rights to Iraq, my right hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley (Ann Clwyd) and a British official, in September 2003. On her return to the UK, Ms Clwyd reported these concerns to the Prime Minister, in a meeting on 15 October 2003. Foreign and Commonwealth Office officials followed up these concerns with the US. In the afore mentioned meeting, Mr. Turki said that a number of individual complaints of poor conditions had been raised with him, but he did not go into detail about specific complaints or facilities.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

426 c1336-7W;426 c1340-1W; 194494

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Disclosure of information Abuse Detainees Armed forces Custodial treatment Iraq Inhuman treatment Peacekeeping operations

Link

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