Iran: Capital Punishment

(asked on 1st May 2018) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the accuracy of recent reports of systematic destruction of mass graves of political prisoners in Iran.


Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 10th May 2018

We are concerned by reports about the destruction of mass graves of political prisoners in Iran. Due to the age of the graves such reports prove difficult to independently verify. This is why, when a new UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in Iran is appointed, we will be calling on Iran to grant them access so they can investigate human rights concerns reported there, including this issue.

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