Found: Involv ement in APPGs (Armed Forces; Anti -Semitism; Abolition of the Death Penalty; Bangladesh; Bahai

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment he has made of the implications of his policies of the (a) number of executions, (b) reported increase in the number of women executed, (c) execution of people who were juveniles at the time of their alleged crimes and (d) offences which resulted in the imposition of the death penalty in Saudi Arabia in 2023.

Answered by David Rutley - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The UK strongly opposes the death penalty in all countries and circumstances. The UK raises the use of the death penalty in Saudi Arabia through a variety of interlocutors. The Minister for the Middle East and Human Rights, Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon, continues to regularly raise the death penalty with the Saudi authorities, particularly where there are allegations regarding people who may have been juveniles at the time of their alleged crimes. Additionally, in January, the UK also recommended the total abolishment of the juvenile death penalty in Saudi Arabia at the UN Human Rights Council.

Found: sodomy were by far the most common and well publicised.6 Individuals convicted under this Act faced the death

Found: a victim of arbitrary detention, State hostage-taking, or in which there is a risk that the death

Found: For the purposes of paragraph 339C, serious harm consists of: (i) the death penalty or execution;

Found: For the purposes of paragraph 339C, serious harm consists of: (i) the death penalty or execution;

Found: to have such a representative present at his or her trial; and h. to have any sentence of the death

Found: NATO Status of Forces Agreement, to undertake a prosecution which may lead to the imposition of the death

Found: For the purposes of paragraph 339C, serious harm consists of: (i) the death penalty or execution;

Found: For the purposes of paragraph 339C, serious harm consists of: (i) the death penalty or execution;

Found: penalty.

Found: For the purposes of paragraph 339C, serious harm consists of: (i) the death penalty or execution;

Found: avail themselves of the protection of that country ’ where ‘serious harm’ consists of: (i) the death

Found: many parts of the world where homosexuality is criminalised and, in some cases, punishable by the death

Found: Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (OP2 -ICCPR) (Abolition of Death