Ramy Kamel

(asked on 3rd November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government when they last raised the case of Ramy Kamel with the government of Egypt; and what assessment they made of (1) his treatment in prison, (2) his visitation rights, and (3) his access to legal assistance.


Answered by
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Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 16th November 2020

We are following the case of Ramy Kamel closely. Our Embassy in Cairo is in regular contact with his lawyer, and has expressed to the Egyptian authorities our concern at his ongoing detention. Guaranteeing visitation rights and access to medical care in prisons was one of the specific recommendations we made in our intervention at Egypt's Universal Periodic Review at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva last year. Encouragingly, the Egyptian Government accepted our recommendation. We continue to follow this issue closely.

Egypt is a Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Human Rights Priority Country. The UK continues to urge the Egyptian Government to ensure the full implementation of the rights and freedoms set out in Egypt's constitution. We regularly raise our concerns with the Egyptian Government, both in public and in private, including at Ministerial level.

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