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Westminster Hall
Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) He has mentioned Iran and recent attacks. - Speech Link
2: Jack Lopresti (Con - Filton and Bradley Stoke) Iran is the main menace, so let us hope for regime change from below in Iran. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) the region by both Turkey and Iran-backed groups, UK support grows in importance. - Speech Link
4: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) Member for Filton and Bradley Stoke, the SNP supports Kurds’ right to self-determination and to decide - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) Bill through the Parliament in Iran. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) in the free Iran group with Maryam Rajavi. - Speech Link
3: Wayne David (Lab - Caerphilly) Iran has supplied huge support to Hamas in Gaza. - Speech Link
4: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) the death penalty is imposed absent of any fair trial or due process, and ethnic minorities such as Kurds - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) Then there are China’s hard-oppressed Uyghur Muslims, and the wonderful Kurds being attacked by Turkey - Speech Link
2: Ian Byrne (Lab - Liverpool, West Derby) At the moment in my great city, one in three people live in food insecurity, and there was nothing in - Speech Link
3: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) That begins in this House, in our communities, in our homes, in our families, in our friendship groups - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 13 Jun 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Theresa Villiers (CON - Chipping Barnet) Israel on the threat from Iran. - Speech Link
2: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) security forces targeting the Kurds. - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (CON - Buckingham) Friend done to challenge the dangerous and continued militarisation in Iran? - Speech Link
4: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) that country—along with China, Russia and Iran—is deeply concerning. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Holocaust Memorial Day - Thu 26 Jan 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Margaret Hodge (LAB - Barking) He hid Jews in his home in Berlin. - Speech Link
2: Stephen Crabb (CON - Preseli Pembrokeshire) Iran has effectively declared war on the Jewish people in Israel, and we should be doing everything we - Speech Link
3: Fiona Bruce (CON - Congleton) In the ’80s there was Saddam Hussein’s desecration of Kurds in Iraq. - Speech Link
4: Theresa Villiers (CON - Chipping Barnet) She was born in 1930 in Poland. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) concern is the use of lethal force by Iranian authorities against oppressed ethnic minorities such as the Kurds - Speech Link
2: Rupa Huq (IND - Ealing Central and Acton) He nearly died.”Others describe how minority populations, such as the Iranians Kurds and others from - Speech Link
3: Christian Wakeford (LAB - Bury South) Iran has destabilised the region for numerous years in how it treats the Kurds and in its approach to - Speech Link
4: Alicia Kearns (CON - Rutland and Melton) That is severely concerning, given that the Kurds continue to hold in their camps Daesh terrorists who - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 08 Nov 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (CON - Sutton Coldfield) human rights violations in Iran. - Speech Link
2: Rushanara Ali (LAB - Bethnal Green and Bow) Iran Human Rights estimates that more than 300 people, including 24 children, have been killed in Iran - Speech Link
3: Kim Johnson (LAB - Liverpool, Riverside) Does he also agree that not doing so gives cover to Turkey’s human rights abuses against Kurds living - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Mahsa Amini - Tue 11 Oct 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Gillian Keegan (CON - Chichester) The death of Mahsa Amini in Iran was a shocking reminder of the repression faced by women in Iran. - Speech Link
2: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) place to support ethnic minorities such as Kurds amid this regime crackdown. - Speech Link
3: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) We stand in solidarity with the women in Iran. - Speech Link
4: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) are when they are in custody in Iran. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Tue 22 Mar 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Damian Green (CON - Ashford) from Iran, Iraq, Syria and Yemen, for whom there is currently no alternative legal and safe route by - Speech Link
2: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) I wanted to highlight the difficulty for Syrian Kurds, who often flee over the Turkish border. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Mitchell (CON - Sutton Coldfield) The Home Office confirms that 87% of the 28,000 arriving illicitly in 2021 came from Iran, Iraq, Syria - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Nationality and Borders Bill: LGBTQ+ People - Wed 02 Feb 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) Many of the people crossing in the boats are Kurds, because there are no legal ways for Kurds, who may - Speech Link
2: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) Cameroon, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Nigeria and Uganda—these are the most common countries of - Speech Link