To campaign for the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances and to raise awareness of death penalty cases.
1. DEATH PENALTY ASSURANCES
11/10/2018 - Early Day Motions
Found: the death penalty will not be used; further notes that Ministers have confirmed that death penalty assurances
2. Foreign Office statement on use of the death penalty in Sri Lanka
26/06/2019 - Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
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Found: Foreign Office statement on use of the death penalty in Sri Lanka - GOV.UK
3. Mohammed Ramadhan And Husain Moosa In Bahrain
09/07/2020 - Early Day Motions
Found: overrule the death sentences of Mohamed Ramadhan and Husain Moosa, two prisoners sentenced to death on the
4. Death penalty sentences against protestors in Iran
23/09/2020 - Early Day Motions
Found: Navid Afkari and the alarming frequency of death penalty sentences being handed down to those involved
5. DEATH PENALTY IN SAUDI ARABIA
17/07/2017 - Early Day Motions
Found: made by human rights organisations that many on death row have been tortured or otherwise coerced into
1. Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [HL]
11/02/2019 - Lords Chamber
1: United States. Amendments 1, 13 and 15 relate to death penalty assurances in any such international agreement - Speech Link
2: not go far enough. It does not ensure that death penalty assurances are secured from foreign states to - Speech Link
2. Foreign Fighters and the Death Penalty
11/10/2018 - Commons Chamber
1: long-standing policy on the death penalty has not changed. We oppose the death penalty in all circumstances - Speech Link
2: the Government marked World Day Against the Death Penalty by declaring, as the Minister has again today - Speech Link
3: evidence without seeking assurances on the death penalty in “exceptional circumstances”—[Interruption - Speech Link
3. Rendition of UK Citizens
24/07/2018 - Lords Chamber
1: the death penalty has not changed. The UK has a long-standing policy of opposing the death penalty as - Speech Link
2: regards to death penalty implications, it is the long-standing policy of the UK to oppose the death penalty - Speech Link
3: My Lords, I reiterate that we oppose the death penalty in all circumstances. The Crime (Overseas Production - Speech Link
4. Bahrain: Prisoners Under Sentence of Death
09/07/2020 - Commons Chamber
1: sentenced to death following torture, and who face a hearing this Monday when their death sentences may - Speech Link
2: were convicted of terrorist charges and given the death sentence again. On 8 January, the former Minister - Speech Link
3: the death penalty is handed down again, I can assure the House that our opposition to the death penalty - Speech Link
5. Saudi Arabia: Death Penalty
26/02/2020 - Lords Chamber
1: Shaws, A perverse and ominous enterprise: the death penalty and illegal executions in Saudi Arabia, published - Speech Link
2: United Kingdom strongly opposes the use of the death penalty in all circumstances. The former Minister of - Speech Link
3: had been an acceleration of the use of the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, including mass executions —beheadings—of - Speech Link
Registered Contact:
Mark Pritchard MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 8494.
Email: pritchardm@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Helen Fair, Research Assistant to Baroness Stern, House of Lords, London SW1A OPW. Tel: 07824 999028
Email: fairh@parliament.uk
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