Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to make representations to the government of Egypt that there should be a moratorium on all death sentences in Egypt, especially in cases where confessions have been obtained through torture.

The executions of 15 men on 26 December 2017 and four men on 2 January 2018 in Egypt are deeply concerning. It is a longstanding policy of the British Government to oppose the death penalty, in all circumstances, as a matter of principle. We continue to raise our human rights concerns with the Egyptian authorities and we encourage Egypt to restrict the application of the death penalty in line with the minimum standards set out in the EU Guidelines on the Death Penalty of 2008 and the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Arab Charter on Human Rights.