Proceeding contribution from Denis MacShane (Independent (affiliation)) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 13 October 2011. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Middle East and North Africa.
Middle East and North Africa
We support the Foreign Secretary when he condemns Gaddafi's torture in Libya and Bashar Assad's torture in Syria. Why will he not condemn the al-Khalifa family's torture in Bahrain? Is he aware that the senior police officers who were suspended for that torture have been reinstated? Women doctors should not be put in prison after a fake trial. If that happened in Burma or Zimbabwe, the Foreign Secretary would be straight out there calling for their release. Instead of welcoming an announcement and attaching great importance to it, will the Foreign Secretary say from the Dispatch Box that these women should be freed this afternoon?
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- 2010-12
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- Democracy Elections Politics and government Security UN resolutions Saudi Arabia Israel Civil disorder Palestine Iran Syria Middle East Yemen Egypt Libya Tunisia Jordan North Africa Bahrain
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