Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Debate
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Valerie Vaz
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(2 years, 5 months ago)
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Sir Charles Walker (in the Chair)
Ms Vaz, you are not going to get in to speak. Do you have an intervention to make?
Valerie Vaz (Walsall South) (Lab)
Very briefly, I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Hampstead and Kilburn (Tulip Siddiq) and wish her and my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham East (Janet Daby) well. The Ratcliffe family, and Anoosheh Ashoori, Morad Tahbaz, who was born in Hammersmith Hospital, and Mehran Raoof are all British citizens. The Hague convention applies to them; they can get diplomatic protection. If the Minister would only look at the Hague convention, he would find that it takes other factors into account. More importantly, why do we not harness the spirit of Lewis Hamilton at the Brazilian grand prix, and realise that there is not a single obstacle that is going to stop us bringing home our Nazanin, Anoosheh, Morad and Mehran?
Several hon. Members rose—