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Alicia Kearns

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Port Talbot Steelworks
Tuesday 30th April 2024

(7 months, 3 weeks ago)

Commons Chamber
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I call the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

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British citizen Ryan Cornelius has now been imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates for 16 years. In 2022, the UN determined that he was “arbitrarily detained”, and before the Deputy Foreign Secretary came to his current position, he signed a letter calling for his immediate release. On Saturday, Ryan turned 70, and his children have grown up without him. Will the Government please update us on what they are doing to get him home and whether they will lodge a plea for clemency, given his age and ill health?

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