Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has made representations to the Bahraini Government on the release of Abdulhadi al-Khawaja.

The UK has a continuing dialogue with the Government of Bahrain in which we raise individual cases. We have raised the case of Abdulhadi al- Khawaja at a senior level and will continue to monitor it.