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Select Committee
Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation
 MUL0003 - International relations within the multilateral system

Written Evidence Apr. 16 2024

Inquiry: International relations within the multilateral system
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: Foundation: Reason for submission The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation presses for political

Lords Chamber
Christians: Persecution - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) with Christian groups and the Ahmadiyya Muslim community reporting difficulties, or in the Gulf, in Bahrain - Speech Link
2: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) international alliance, the special envoy established a scheme to raise awareness each month of different prisoners - Speech Link

Select Committee
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI), and Jerusalem Development Fund

Oral Evidence Feb. 27 2024

Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: This war should be stopped now; and obviously, prisoners and hostages should be released and the starvation

Select Committee
Gershom Gorenberg, Columbia University, and International Institute for Counter-Terrorism

Oral Evidence Feb. 27 2024

Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: This war should be stopped now; and obviously, prisoners and hostages should be released and the starvation

Commons Chamber
Ceasefire in Gaza - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) Since 7 October, she and I have been in Bahrain together, meeting with middle east leaders to talk about - Speech Link
2: Liam Fox (Con - North Somerset) The Governments of Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Morocco have been far sighted in maintaining - Speech Link
3: Tobias Ellwood (Con - Bournemouth East) Bahrain was the only country to say that it condemned what Hamas had done. - Speech Link
4: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) now doing is not a natural consequence of what Hamas did, which was evil and wicked—the retention of prisoners - Speech Link
5: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) Hostages and prisoners must be released, and we must stop the arms export licences to Israel. - Speech Link

Commons Chamber
Iran: Freedom and Democracy - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Ian Paisley (DUP - North Antrim) There is an all-party parliamentary group whose secretariat is BIRD—the Bahrain Institute for Rights - Speech Link
2: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) Tens of thousands of political prisoners, the overwhelming majority being peaceful, have been arrested - Speech Link
3: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) UN Human Rights Council dispatch an international fact-finding mission to Iran to visit the regime’s prisoners—to - Speech Link

Scottish Government Publication (Progress report)
Equality, Inclusion and Human Rights Directorate

Jan. 22 2024

Source Page: UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review - fourth cycle recommendations: Scottish Government response
Document: United Nations Human Rights Council: Universal Periodic Review Fourth Cycle (November 2022): Scottish Government Response to the Recommendations (PDF)

Found: minorities, in particular women living in the rural areas of the country Support Support 197 Bahrain

Select Committee
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Oral Evidence Jan. 09 2024

Inquiry: Work of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Inquiry Status: Open
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: This is a moral and political point.

Select Committee
British Committee for Iran Freedom
 MENA0015 - The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Written Evidence Dec. 18 2023

Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: require the release of all political prisoners in Iran and other MENA countries.

Select Committee
All-Party Parliamentary Human Rights Group (PHRG) - an APPG
 MENA0041 - The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Written Evidence Dec. 18 2023

Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: authoritarian (defined here as highly concentrated and centralised Government power maintained by political