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Lords Chamber
Bahrain - Wed 24 Jul 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Scriven (LDEM - Life peer) prisoners, including Najah Yusuf, who has endured similar abuses. - Speech Link
2: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) assistance in Bahrain to influence and support change. - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) We will continue to work with Bahrain. Bahrain is a partner and we have many strategic interests. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Human Rights in Saudi Arabia - Thu 18 Jul 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Alistair Carmichael (LDEM - Orkney and Shetland) They should be looking at some of their current actions.I will focus on people being held as political - Speech Link
2: Tom Brake (LDEM - Carshalton and Wallington) prisoners and, pending that happening, seek proof of life of those who have been detained? - Speech Link
3: Andrew Murrison (CON - South West Wiltshire) More generally, we believe that civil and political rights strengthen a nation. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK Foreign Policy in a Shifting World Order (International Relations Committee Report) - Tue 21 May 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) Under Xi Jinping, we have seen a rapid and significant deterioration in political rights, in freedom - Speech Link
2: Lord Marlesford (CON - Life peer) As the report suggests, the great benefits also brought high social and political costs. - Speech Link
3: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) And that change was, of course, a political party getting rid of its pro-European leader and electing - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 11 Apr 2019
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Valerie Vaz (LAB - Walsall South) Our staff and the staff of all the political parties are unseen, but they have worked incredibly hard - Speech Link
2: Neil Coyle (IND - Bermondsey and Old Southwark) I wonder whether the Government might provide time to debate the state of a political party whose primary - Speech Link
3: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) The ongoing show trial of 18 Catalan political prisoners in Madrid, including the former Speaker of the - Speech Link
4: Jo Stevens (LAB - Cardiff Central) Brunei, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have two things in common. - Speech Link
5: Cat Smith (LAB - Lancaster and Fleetwood) This will have implications not just for political parties, but for non-party campaigning organisations - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Bahrain: Human Rights - Wed 13 Mar 2019
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Scriven (LDEM - Life peer) made by the King of Bahrain. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hussain (LDEM - Life peer) Bahrain to improve its level of tolerance and understanding of diverse political and religious views - Speech Link
3: Lord Luce (CB - Life peer) That has repercussions for Bahrain. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Northover (LDEM - Life peer) Although Bahrain is a constitutional monarchy with an elected national assembly, political power ultimately - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Yemen - Thu 28 Feb 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Keith Vaz (LAB - Leicester East) attendance.In a world beset by multiple crises, Yemen continues to exhaust all comparisons as a political - Speech Link
2: Keith Vaz (LAB - Leicester East) Two bodies were established, one to oversee the exchange of prisoners —the Redeployment Co-ordination - Speech Link
3: Alistair Burt (CON - North East Bedfordshire) Gentleman, who speaks both from practical political knowledge and a relationship with Yemen that few - Speech Link
4: Alistair Burt (CON - North East Bedfordshire) Actually, the parties are still discussing prisoners, but the fact that they are talking—through the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sport in the UK - Mon 04 Feb 2019
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Rosena Allin-Khan (LAB - Tooting) would like to put on record my disgust at the situation of Hakeem al-Araibi, the footballer who fled Bahrain - Speech Link
2: Phillip Lee (LDEM - Bracknell) If we could take prisoners out of the environment in which they find themselves—often locked up, drugged - Speech Link
3: Derek Thomas (CON - St Ives) Those of us who have been engaged in the project for some time recognise that there is significant political - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Bahrain - Tue 11 Sep 2018
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Karen Lee (LAB - Lincoln) Female political prisoners in Bahrain, including activists Najah Yusif and Medina Ali, have been subjected - Speech Link
2: Andy Slaughter (LAB - Hammersmith) Mushaima and al-Singace were the nephews of prominent peaceful opposition political activists in Bahrain - Speech Link
3: Leo Docherty (CON - Aldershot) Some of us know that the foremost exponents of political reform in the Kingdom of Bahrain include His - Speech Link
4: Fabian Hamilton (LAB - Leeds North East) Bahrain, who is concerned about the sexual abuse of female prisoners. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Visit to Oman, UAE and Iran - Mon 11 Dec 2017
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) Government strongly believe that the only way of bringing this tragic conflict to an end is through a political - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) What is the plan to secure a ceasefire agreement and make progress to a long-term political solution? - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) As noble Lords know, there is a deeply embedded issue that goes beyond just political rivalries, but - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Venezuela: Political Situation - Tue 05 Sep 2017
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Graham P Jones (LAB - Hyndburn) I beg to move,That this House has considered the political situation in Venezuela.It is a pleasure to - Speech Link
2: Graham P Jones (LAB - Hyndburn) Gangland violence, political brutality and drugs have taken hold as the economy collapses. - Speech Link
3: Nusrat Ghani (CON - Wealden) The crisis in Venezuela is not just economic but political, and it is entirely self-made. - Speech Link