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722495

registered interest
date	19/04/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Issa Amro and Omar Barghouti
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has made representations to the Israeli Government on the (a) charges brought against Issa Amro by the Israeli military court and (b) arrest of Omar Barghouti in March 2017.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	71321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <p>We have not raised the particular cases of Mr Amro or Mr Barghouti with the Israeli authorities but we are following their cases closely. Officials from our Consulate-General in Jerusalem attended Mr Amro’s court hearing on 26 March, visited him at Youth Against Settlements in Hebron on 6 January and met his lawyer on 17 January.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 25/04/2017 14:30:55 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

722497

registered interest
date	19/04/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Nabeel Rajab
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the Government of Bahrain on the case of Nabeel Rajab.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	71331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>The British Government has raised concerns over the case of Nabeel Rajab with the Bahraini Government at senior levels. The judicial process is ongoing and we continue to monitor the case closely with officials</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 24/04/2017 15:37:08 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

720458

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Sayed Alwadaei
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has made representations to his Bahraini counterpart on the harassment of family members of Sayed Al Wadaei.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	70313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <p>The UK monitors events in Bahrain closely. We continue to raise concerns about human rights with the Bahraini authorities, both in private and in public. We encourage anyone with concerns about their treatment in detention to report these directly to the Ombudsman.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 25/04/2017 12:27:46 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

720460

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Abduljalil al-Singace
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has (a) made and (b) received on the medical treatment available to the Bahraini prisoner, Abduljalil al-Singace.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	70265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <p>The UK monitors events in Bahrain closely. We continue to raise concerns about human rights with the Bahraini authorities, both in private and in public. We encourage anyone with concerns about their treatment in detention to report these directly to the Ombudsman.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 25/04/2017 12:26:20 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

720461

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Bahrain: Political Parties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government has made representations to the Government of Bahrain on the alleged dissolution of the secular opposition party Wa'ad National Democratic Action Society by that Government.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	70214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <p>We are following closely the legal action brought against Wa'ad. We work closely with the Government of Bahrain to encourage progress on human rights and, where we have concerns, we will continue to raise them in public and in private.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 25/04/2017 12:22:58 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

720462

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Bahrain: National Security
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government has provided any training or guidance to the National Security Agency in Bahrain since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	70215
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <p>It is a long standing policy of successive British Governments not to comment on intelligence matters.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 25/04/2017 12:24:53 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

681196

registered interest
date	30/01/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Saudi Arabia: Capital Punishment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2016 to Questions 40437 and 40433, when his Department last made representations to Saudi Arabia (a) expressing concern about the extent of the application of and (b) encouraging abolition of the death penalty in that country.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	62253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2017 answer text <p>The UK Government does not shy away from raising legitimate human rights concerns. We regularly raise the death penalty with the Saudi authorities, most recently on 19 January.</p><p>The UK Government opposes the death penalty in all circumstances and in every country, including Saudi Arabia, especially for crimes other than the most serious and for juveniles, in line Article Six of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Arab Charter on Human Rights.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 07/02/2017 14:07:59 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

681197

registered interest
date	30/01/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Saudi Arabia: Convention on Cluster Munitions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2016 to Question 40456, what recent representations the UK has made to Saudi Arabia to accede to the Convention on Cluster Munitions; and on what dates those representations were made.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	62254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2017 answer text <p>In line with our obligations under the Convention on Cluster Munitions, we regularly encourage Saudi Arabia, as a non-party to the Convention, to accede to it. The most recent Ministerial engagement on this issue was in October. Foreign Office Ministers, our Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and officials have frequent meetings with the Saudi government and officials to discuss a full range of regional and bilateral issues.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 07/02/2017 14:15:12 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

678037

registered interest
date	24/01/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Saudi Arabia: Capital Punishment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2016 to Question 45557, what recent representations he has made to his Saudi Arabian counterpart on the cases of Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, Abdullah al-Zaher and Dawood al-Marhoon.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	61453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2017 answer text <p>The UK remains concerned about cases of Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, Dawood al-Marhoon and Abdullah al-Zaher. Our Embassy in Riyadh last raised the three men's cases on 19 January 2017 and our expectation remains that they will not be executed. We will continue to closely follow their cases.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 01/02/2017 13:13:07 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

671735

registered interest
date	11/01/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Bahrain: Capital Punishment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the government of Bahrain on the death sentences against Abbas al-Samea, Sami Mushaima and Ali al-Singace; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	59618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2017 answer text <p>The Foreign Secretary, my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Mr Johnson) released a statement on 15 January where he outlined the UK’s firm opposition to the death penalty. It is our longstanding position to oppose capital sentences in all circumstances. The Bahraini authorities are fully aware of our position and the Foreign Secretary has raised the issue with the Government of Bahrain.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 19/01/2017 16:28:49 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier