Child Prisoners and Detainees: Occupied Palestinian Territories
Debate between Sarah Champion and Lord Austin of Dudley(8 years, 10 months ago)
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Sarah Champion
I think that the whole room gasped when my hon. Friend read that out. We would be outraged, and I draw my hon. Friend’s attention to the fact that that behaviour is happening on an industrial scale.
Ian Austin (Dudley North) (Lab)
Will my hon. Friend give way for a factual point?
Ian Austin
As I understand it, the age of legal responsibility in Israel and Palestine is 12. A nine-year-old could not be detained—they just could not. It does not happen.