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 the Sudanese authorities to support the appeal of the sentences of Sudanese pastor Reverend Hassan Abduraheem and Darfuri student Abulmonem Abdulmawla.
We are concerned about the sentencing of Pastor Hassan Abduelraheem Kodi and Mr Abdulmonem Abdumawlla, who must be given the opportunity to take up their right to appeal. We regularly raise this case with the Sudanese authorities; most recently the UK Special Representative for Sudan and South Sudan did so with senior figures of the Government of Sudan during his visit to Khartoum between 6-8 March.