Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent representations she has made to the Government of Egypt on the continued detention of Abdolmoneim Aboulfotouh.

The Foreign Secretary raised human rights in her first meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Shoukry in New York on 20 September. I [Minister Cleverly] also raised human rights with Foreign Minister Shoukry and met human rights activists during my recent visit to Cairo. We welcome Egypt's new human rights strategy and our strong bilateral relationship with Egypt allows us to raise human rights concerns frankly when we have them. Our focus is to lobby on ending pre-trial detention and improving prison conditions in Egypt