Written question asked by Joe Benton (Labour) on Tuesday, 11 November 2014, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 17 November 2014. It was answered by Tobias Ellwood (Conservative) on Tuesday, 18 November 2014 on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Iran
- Question
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Iranian counterpart on Abdolreza Ali Haghnejad and Silas Rabbani, sentenced to prison because of their religious beliefs.
- Answer
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We last raised with the Iranian government our ongoing concerns over the detention of prisoners of conscience and discrimination against Christians and other minority religious groups in Iran during our interventions at the Universal Periodic Review of Iran’s Human Rights at the UN on 31 October. We have not raised these individual cases with the Iranian Government.
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- 214357
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- 2014-15
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- Prisoners Religious freedom Iran
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