Mentions:
1: Charlotte Leslie (CON - Bristol North West) solutions using political institutions, and security solutions using military equipment. - Speech Link
2: Charlotte Leslie (CON - Bristol North West) Hedayah has deconstructed several political common misconceptions: first, that extremism is simply born - Speech Link
3: Charlotte Leslie (CON - Bristol North West) In a political world in which we can seldom find any initial response to atrocities such as those in - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (IND - Glasgow North) We have heard about defence contracts and the base in Bahrain. - Speech Link
5: Diana Johnson (LAB - Kingston upon Hull North) about the position of opposition and civil society groups, the detention of political prisoners and - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Valerie Vaz (LAB - Walsall South) In Burma, despite the election win by the National League for Democracy, there are political prisoners - Speech Link
2: Suella Braverman (CON - Fareham) Political authoritarianism has gained ground in Russia, Turkey, Hungary and Venezuela. - Speech Link
3: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) By turning a blind eye, the UK was party to the US moving prisoners to places where their human rights - Speech Link
4: Andy Slaughter (LAB - Hammersmith) In Egypt, 40,000 political prisoners are detained, 2,500 political opponents have been killed, and 18 - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Chidgey (LDEM - Life peer) He has had a long and varied political career. - Speech Link
2: Lord Sterling of Plaistow (CON - Life peer) It is excellent news that we now have clear political will to engage and re-engage from strength. - Speech Link
3: Lord Soley (LAB - Life peer) The first is about the naval base at Bahrain. I led a delegation to Bahrain last year. - Speech Link
4: Lord Touhig (LAB - Life peer) It would be easy to make party political points and hit out at the Government over the review. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Daniel Kawczynski (CON - Shrewsbury and Atcham) That tension is starting to spill over, not just in Yemen, but in Bahrain and now so tragically in Syria - Speech Link
2: Andy Slaughter (LAB - Hammersmith) We support Saudi Arabia, where many barbaric things occur within the regime, and, indeed, Bahrain, where - Speech Link
3: Richard Drax (CON - South Dorset) How wonderful it would be if a political solution were possible. - Speech Link
4: Lord Evans of Rainow (CON - Life peer) significantly worse, with more people subject to ISIL’s brutality.Let us not forget that ISIL burns prisoners - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Fabian Hamilton (LAB - Leeds North East) and it expressed serious concerns over China’s continued use of torture to extract confessions from prisoners - Speech Link
2: Lord Hammond of Runnymede (CON - Life peer) I will visit Tunisia soon to discuss the effectiveness of UK political and security co-operation with - Speech Link
3: Oliver Dowden (CON - Hertsmere) What steps the Government are taking to put in place a new political process in Syria. - Speech Link
4: Tobias Ellwood (CON - Bournemouth East) The Foreign Secretary has visited Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Ann Clwyd (LAB - Cynon Valley) is quite alarming; the UK Government were in effect legitimising the regimes and provided them with political - Speech Link
2: Andy Slaughter (LAB - Hammersmith) Does she agree that that also applies to Bahrain? - Speech Link
3: Ann Clwyd (LAB - Cynon Valley) If Turkey buys weapons at the DSEI exhibition, they could be used to support the repression of its political - Speech Link
4: Kate Osamor (LAB - Edmonton) Israel currently holds more than 5,000 Palestinians as political prisoners, and last summer it carried - Speech Link
5: Patrick Grady (IND - Glasgow North) Against Arms Trade, UKTI DSO is staffed by about 130 civil servants, to say nothing of the high-profile political - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Stewart Malcolm McDonald (SNP - Glasgow South) Artists such as Salman Rushdie, who is a personal inspiration, thinkers such as Galileo, political leaders - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) There is also the question of past weapons use in Bahrain. - Speech Link
3: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) , however, and it has rejected the recommendation to ratify the international covenant on civil and political - Speech Link
4: Tobias Ellwood (CON - Bournemouth East) but, as has been articulated today, allegations of torture continue to be heard, particularly from political - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon (LDEM - Life peer) It is an economic tide to date, for sure, but that will develop into political power and military power - Speech Link
2: Lord Jay of Ewelme (CB - Life peer) We need to engage with and help to shape the key international organisations, political and economic, - Speech Link
3: Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville (CON - Life peer) There is his later famous reply to a political master:“My Lord, if I attempted to answer the mass of - Speech Link
4: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) range of issues, including the commitment to increase British forces in the Gulf and expand our base in Bahrain - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Rehman Chishti (CON - Gillingham and Rainham) He mentioned the GCC and Bahrain, but another linked point is Iran harbouring and sponsoring terrorism - Speech Link
2: Nadhim Zahawi (CON - Stratford-on-Avon) Friend mentioned Bahrain, but obviously this includes the United Arab Emirates and others—are nervous - Speech Link
3: Guto Bebb (IND - Aberconwy) That is an interesting point, but I suspect that the significant political changes in South Africa made - Speech Link
4: Andrew Percy (CON - Brigg and Goole) prisoners and fund terror groups across the middle east. - Speech Link
5: Tobias Ellwood (CON - Bournemouth East) Significant economic advantages and political benefits await if Iran agrees to a robust nuclear deal. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Anderson of Swansea (LAB - Life peer) A compromise has long been available—for example, on prisoners’ voting rights—the so-called margin of - Speech Link
2: Lord Marlesford (CON - Life peer) Political Islam no more speaks for them than the IRA did for the Catholic people of Ireland. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Anelay of St Johns (CON - Life peer) My noble friend—he is still a friend—Lord Wallace of Saltaire asked specifically about Bahrain. - Speech Link