China: Political Prisoners

(asked on 28th June 2017) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Chinese counterpart on providing adequate medical care for political dissidents in prison in that country.


Answered by
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Mark Field
This question was answered on 3rd July 2017

​We frequently raise cases of specific concern of human rights activists with the Chinese, including those individuals detained with medical conditions. For example, during the most recent UK-China Human Rights Dialogue on 27 June, we urged the Chinese to ensure Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo had access to his choice of medical treatment.

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