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date	06/12/2018
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	Morocco: Migrants
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 his counterpart in Morocco on (a) reports that security forces opened-fire on a boat carrying migrants on 25 September and (b) the two-year prison sentence handed down by a court in Tétouan on 17 October to a man who protested against the incident of 25 September on social media.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	199812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p>We are aware of the 25 September incident, in which a Moroccan woman died, and related protests. We raise human rights issues with our Moroccan interlocutors, most recently in October, during a visit by Embassy officials to Al Hoceima. Worldwide, we emphasise the importance of respecting the human rights of migrants.​</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 14/12/2018 12:38:31 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

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date	19/11/2018
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	Morocco: Migrants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the validity of recent reports by the Moroccan Association of Human Rights of a recent increase in attacks against sub-Saharan African migrants in Morocco.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	192757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>​Her Majesty's Government is aware of a recent report<strong>s</strong> by the Moroccan Association of Human Rights and others. Worldwide, we continue to emphasise the importance of respecting the human rights of migrants and we will raise concerns with the Moroccan authorities when appropriate. We continue to work alongside European partners to tackle the shared challenge of illegal migration, including efforts to deter people from making perilous journeys, providing humanitarian assistance to vulnerable migrants and targeting the people smugglers and traffickers who exploit their desperation.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 27/11/2018 17:55:43 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry