Persecution and Detention of LGBT Citizens: Chechnya Debate
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Stuart C McDonald
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Persecution and Detention of LGBT Citizens: Chechnya
Stuart C McDonald Excerpts(7 years, 7 months ago)
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Sir Alan Duncan
Those discussions take place regularly in all the forums in which we are represented. More often than not, it is the UK that is in the lead in designing initiatives and statements that echo exactly the opinions that the hon. Gentleman just stated.
Stuart C. McDonald (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) (SNP)
The appalling treatment that LGBT people face in some countries makes it all the more important that officials here making decisions on sexual orientation-based asylum cases get them 100% correct. Will the Minister at least make representations to the Home Office that no asylum case should ever be refused solely on the basis that a person can return home and hide their sexuality?
Sir Alan Duncan
I undertake to convey the comments of the hon. Gentleman, and indeed this entire exchange, to the Home Secretary.