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Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Feb. 29 2024

Source Page: UK calls for full and independent investigation of Alexei Navalny's death: UK statement to the OSCE
Document: UK calls for full and independent investigation of Alexei Navalny's death: UK statement to the OSCE (webpage)

Found: He was imprisoned for peaceful political activities and was sent to an Arctic penal colony.


Select Committee
International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute
MENA0047 - 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: Association’s Human Rights Institute and the Coalition for Genocide Response (MENA0047) Foreign Affairs


Deposited Papers

Dec. 02 2009

Source Page: Contact group on piracy off the coast of Somalia. Working group 1. Regional counter-piracy capability development needs assessment and prioritisation mission to East Africa and the Gulf of Aden 7-13 Sept 2009. incl. annexes. 60 p.
Document: DEP2009-3000.pdf (PDF)

Found: The Minister of Foreign Affairs suggested that Piracy was one of the negative effects of the collapse


Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Apr. 18 2024

Source Page: UK and others condemn treatment of prisoners in Russia, including Vladimir Kara-Murza: Joint Statement to the OSCE
Document: UK and others condemn treatment of prisoners in Russia, including Vladimir Kara-Murza: Joint Statement to the OSCE (webpage)

Found: Later that month, a Moscow court found Orlov guilty, sentencing him to two years and six months in a penal


Commons Chamber
Ukraine - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) We immediately announced sanctions against six individuals heading up the penal colony where Mr Navalny - Speech Link
2: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) the European Union on our collective security, and whether the Foreign Secretary would attend foreign affairs - Speech Link
3: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) I thank the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee very much for her perceptive and wise comments. - Speech Link
4: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) I share the concern expressed by the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, the hon. - Speech Link
5: Stewart Malcolm McDonald (SNP - Glasgow South) frustration that Ukrainians told me about this weekend when I was there with the Chair of the Foreign Affairs - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Sentencing Act 2020 (Amendment of Schedule 21) Regulations 2023 - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None before this session, I listened to the Lord Chancellor addressing the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Penal - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Death of Alexei Navalny - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) Putin’s Russia imprisoned him on fabricated charges, poisoned him and sent him to an Arctic penal colony - Speech Link
2: Alyn Smith (SNP - Stirling) The Minister will be aware that the EU Foreign Affairs Council is meeting in Brussels as we speak. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill - Tue 12 Mar 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) under the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, who was the founding chair of your Lordships’ Justice and Home Affairs - Speech Link
2: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Con - Life peer) sure that the public are properly protected—otherwise, respect for and confidence in our judicial and penal - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) an opportunity to thank, once more, the Prison Reform Trust, and I would add the Howard League for Penal - Speech Link


Select Committee
JUSTICE
FPP0010 - Future prison population and estate capacity

Written Evidence Nov. 07 2023

Inquiry: Future prison population and estate capacity
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)

Found: In her address to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Penal Affairs in May 2023, the President of


Westminster Hall
Ahmadi Muslims: Pakistan - Wed 06 Sep 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jake Berry (CON - Rossendale and Darwen) and Darwen, and in east Lancashire more generally, including by Mohammed Shafiq, the head of external affairs - Speech Link
2: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) press not just for the relaxation of anti-Ahmadi rhetoric and legislation but its full removal from penal - Speech Link
3: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) Government, and to encourage them to fully remove all anti-Ahmadi laws from their constitution and their penal - Speech Link
4: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) In 1984 and 1986, the Pakistan penal code was amended and stipulated up to three years in prison if Ahmadis - Speech Link