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Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 221035, tabled on 15 January 2015

Question

Tim Farron
Liberal Democrat
Westmorland and Lonsdale
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the Egyptian government on freedom of religion in that country for (a) atheists and (b) Christians.

Answer

Mr Tobias Ellwood
Conservative
Bournemouth East
Commons

Answered on

20 January 2015

We deplore all discrimination against religious minorities and constraints on their freedom to practise what they believe. Most recently, I raised the importance of protecting the human rights enshrined in Egypt’s constitution, which include freedom of belief and worship, with a number of senior figures in the Egyptian Government during my visit to Cairo on January 12-16. UK officials also discussed the importance of religious freedom with the Egyptian Deputy Assistant Minister for Human Rights, Dr Mahy Abdel Latif on 14 January 2015.

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