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Lords Chamber
Christians: Persecution - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) with Christian groups and the Ahmadiyya Muslim community reporting difficulties, or in the Gulf, in Bahrain - Speech Link
2: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) international alliance, the special envoy established a scheme to raise awareness each month of different prisoners - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ceasefire in Gaza - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) Since 7 October, she and I have been in Bahrain together, meeting with middle east leaders to talk about - Speech Link
2: Liam Fox (Con - North Somerset) The Governments of Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Morocco have been far sighted in maintaining - Speech Link
3: Tobias Ellwood (Con - Bournemouth East) Bahrain was the only country to say that it condemned what Hamas had done. - Speech Link
4: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) now doing is not a natural consequence of what Hamas did, which was evil and wicked—the retention of prisoners - Speech Link
5: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) Hostages and prisoners must be released, and we must stop the arms export licences to Israel. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Iran: Freedom and Democracy - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Ian Paisley (DUP - North Antrim) There is an all-party parliamentary group whose secretariat is BIRD—the Bahrain Institute for Rights - Speech Link
2: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) Tens of thousands of political prisoners, the overwhelming majority being peaceful, have been arrested - Speech Link
3: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) UN Human Rights Council dispatch an international fact-finding mission to Iran to visit the regime’s prisoners—to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) To the political points that the right hon. - Speech Link
2: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) It would build on the historic Abraham accords of 2020, when Bahrain and the UAE bonded with Israel, - Speech Link
3: Dehenna Davison (Con - Bishop Auckland) I was very pleased to see the Victims and Prisoners Bill rolled over, as well as the introduction of - Speech Link
4: Jack Lopresti (Con - Filton and Bradley Stoke) In addition, the Victims and Prisoners Bill will implement Jade’s law, automatically suspending legal - Speech Link
5: Ian Byrne (Lab - Liverpool, West Derby) Hunger is a political choice made by this Government. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Iran - Thu 12 Jan 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) prisoners, all of whom were executed. - Speech Link
2: David Jones (CON - Clwyd West) dissidents in secret in 1988—the notorious 1988 massacre of political prisoners. - Speech Link
3: Matthew Offord (CON - Hendon) In contrast, when I attended the Manama Dialogue conference in Bahrain, the US central command chief - Speech Link
4: Fleur Anderson (LAB - Putney) For example, we could consider ensuring that all political prisoners in Iran have political sponsorships - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Human Rights Day - Thu 08 Dec 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) prisoners and the initiation of meaningful political dialogue.I also highlight the exploitative practices - Speech Link
2: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) tirelessly on behalf of political prisoners in that country. - Speech Link
3: Bambos Charalambous (LAB - Enfield, Southgate) It should not be a party political issue. - Speech Link
4: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) Member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West raised the issue of political representation in Bahrain. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Gulf States: Human Rights Abuses - Thu 24 Nov 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Scriven (LDEM - Life peer) Shias are also overrepresented among Bahrain’s estimated 1,400 political prisoners. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Featherstone (LDEM - Life peer) Prisoners from rebel groups were being kept in cages underground without food or water. - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) It has somehow debased itself into considering that love is a political statement. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
China: Security and Trade (IRDC Report) - Thu 20 Oct 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Goodlad (CON - Life peer) China has considerable political leverage with Russia, and that is clearly an area where it is worth - Speech Link
2: Lord Howell of Guildford (CON - Life peer) know, the Chinese have had their setbacks and are not always popular, particularly when they have used prisoners - Speech Link
3: Baroness Anelay of St Johns (CON - Life peer) Truss.My friend, the noble Lord, Lord Alton, referred to our visit just two weeks ago to the Gulf—to Bahrain - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Human Rights Abuses and Corruption: UK Sanctions - Thu 21 Jul 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Bryant (LAB - Rhondda) He is one of the thousands of political prisoners in Russia who have been subject to serious human rights - Speech Link
2: Wendy Chamberlain (LDEM - North East Fife) prisoners in Belarus, where there are currently 1,260 persons classified globally as political prisoners - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ukraine - Wed 25 May 2022
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Quin (CON - Horsham) the Ukrainian Government have made it clear that where other nationals have been combatants, they are prisoners - Speech Link
2: Bob Seely (CON - Isle of Wight) I listened to him in Bahrain a couple of months before the war started and he basically said, “Look, - Speech Link
3: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus) That is not just a rhetorical observation or a political point—I genuinely wish it was not so, but it - Speech Link
4: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) Here, Ukrainian prisoners of war face the horrifying prospect of show trials staged by the authorities - Speech Link
5: James Cleverly (CON - Braintree) There is, of course, always the opportunity here to engage in partisan and party political attacks. - Speech Link