Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of extra-judicial killings in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh remains a Human Rights Priority Country for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and extra-judicial killings remain a significant human rights concern. One prominent local human rights organisations alleges that 154 extra-judicial killings took place in 2017, down from 178 in 2016. Our human rights concerns, including extra-judicial killings, were raised during the UK-Bangladesh Strategic Dialogue in London on March 15 and our officials in Dhaka regularly raise our concerns with the Government of Bangladesh