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Lords Chamber
Amnesty International Report 2021/22 - Wed 27 Apr 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) The Amnesty report highlighted arbitrary detentions, cruel and inhumane treatment of detainees, suppression - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) noble Lord say to us about the position we take in the United Nations Human Rights Council, of which China - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) tragically, most if not all may have been breached when it comes to the application of human rights in China - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Prime Minister’s Visit to India - Tue 26 Apr 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Vicky Ford (CON - Chelmsford) constitutional changes in August 2019 to be lifted as soon as possible and for any remaining political detainees - Speech Link
2: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) During talks with Prime Minister Modi, did the Prime Minister discuss India’s relationship with China - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Committee stage - Tue 08 Feb 2022
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None people, since the reality is that the UK Government would have much less control over the treatment of detainees - Speech Link
2: Lord Etherton (CB - Life peer) In detention they experience discrimination, harassment and violence from other detainees and from members - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) the case of North Korea, we, the United Kingdom, will regularly raise with the People’s Republic of China - Speech Link
4: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) I was saying that it diminishes our ability to speak to countries such as Turkey or China—which I also - Speech Link
5: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) earlier by the noble Lord, Lord Kirkhope—whether in Afghanistan or at risk of being repatriated to China - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health and Care Bill
Committee stage - Fri 04 Feb 2022
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (LAB - Life peer) Sauytbay, who testified during the June hearings that she discovered medical files detailing Uighur detainees - Speech Link
2: Baroness Northover (LDEM - Life peer) If China had nothing to hide, it would accede. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (LAB - Life peer) At the end of the day, you come back to the issue of ourselves and China. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health and Care Bill
Lords Hansard - Part 1 - Mon 31 Jan 2022
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (LAB - Life peer) Anyway, many PPE contracts use products sourced from China. - Speech Link
2: None weights at their feet … Detained women—and men—have been raped and subjected to extreme sexual violence … Detainees - Speech Link
3: Baroness Walmsley (LDEM - Life peer) On the box was written, “Made in China”. - Speech Link
4: None I see a china shop, I attach my bull’s horns. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Uyghur Tribunal Judgment - Thu 20 Jan 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) weights”.It also found:“Detained women—and men—have been raped and subjected to extreme sexual violence…Detainees - Speech Link
2: Stephen Kinnock (LAB - Aberavon) conduct an investigation from outside China? - Speech Link
3: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) young, fit Uyghurs were subjected to forced organ harvesting, supported by a pattern of disappeared detainees - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Bahraini Political Prisoners - Thu 13 Jan 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Bob Stewart (CON - Beckenham) the state; it is also where a lot of the weaponry I saw originated from.Last May, ambassadors from China - Speech Link
2: Alistair Carmichael (LDEM - Orkney and Shetland) However, I must say to the Minister that we undermine our good work on China and other regimes if we - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) affront to all that is decent: unfair trials of protesters and critics of the regime; ill treatment of detainees - Speech Link
4: James Cleverly (CON - Braintree) Rights, the Ministry of Interior Ombudsman, the Special Investigations Unit, and the Prisoners and Detainees - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Magnitsky Sanctions: Human Rights Abuses - Wed 08 Dec 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: None Implement sanctions against the Nigerian Government and officials, e-petition 300146, Impose sanctions on China - Speech Link
2: Chris Bryant (LAB - Rhondda) In his role, he has been involved in the ill treatment of detainees, particularly in the use of forceful - Speech Link
3: Iain Duncan Smith (CON - Chingford and Woodford Green) , taking over the South China sea, killing Indian soldiers and threatening to declare war on Taiwan.I - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Nationality and Borders Bill (Sixteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 16th sitting - Thu 04 Nov 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) I am grateful to Amnesty International, Migrant Voice, Bail for Immigration Detainees, the Scottish Refugee - Speech Link
2: Bambos Charalambous (LAB - Enfield, Southgate) Those documents were issued to citizens following the handover of Hong Kong from the UK to China in 1997 - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 26 Oct 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Elizabeth Truss (CON - South West Norfolk) It is important that we trade with China, but we need to ensure that it is reliable trade, that it avoids - Speech Link
2: Elizabeth Truss (CON - South West Norfolk) meeting with Iranian Ministers—and with our international allies to bring Nazanin and the other UK detainees - Speech Link