Earl of Clancarty
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(14 years ago)
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Earl Attlee
My Lords, we are obviously extremely concerned about these developments and we will be monitoring the situation very carefully.
The Earl of Clancarty
My Lords, will not this Government see fit to make a proper public apology to the great Iranian film maker, Abbas Kiarostami, for the humiliating treatment he received in Tehran last year, when he tried, but failed, to obtain a visa to come here to direct the English National Opera, caught out as he was by immigration rules that are doing enormous cultural damage to this country?
Earl Attlee
My Lords, I believe that this happened under the previous Administration. I am not aware of the case, but I shall write to the noble Earl.