Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make it his policy to call for the establishment of an independent investigative mechanism by the United Nations into the civil protests in Iran.

The UK co-sponsored the Human Rights Council resolution to establish a UN investigation into human rights violations committed by the Iranian regime during recent protests. This passed at a Special Session of the Council on 24 November. The UK also worked closely with the US on removing Iran from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, which was achieved on 14 December. We continue to press Iran at every opportunity over its brutal suppression of protests in Iran.