Debates between Harriett Baldwin and Nicholas Dakin during the 2017-2019 Parliament

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Debate between Harriett Baldwin and Nicholas Dakin
Tuesday 30th October 2018

(6 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nicholas Dakin Portrait Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe) (Lab)
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T9. What are the Government doing to secure the release of South Sudanese civil society activist and Cambridge PhD student Peter Ajak, who has been detained without charge for 94 days in the notorious Blue House prison in Juba?

Harriett Baldwin Portrait Harriett Baldwin
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I pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman’s work as vice-chair of the all-party parliamentary group for Sudan and South Sudan. This is a serious situation. We continue to advocate the freeing up of political space and the freeing of political prisoners, as some of the cost-free things that the Government of South Sudan could do to show willing in terms of the peace process declared on 12 September.