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Mexico: Religious Freedom

Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 53206, tabled on 16 November 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the government of Mexico on the alleged persecution of Christians in Chichiltepec, Chachalaca and other parts of that country.

Answered on

21 November 2016

​Issues relating to human rights and the rule of law are a priority for our engagement with Mexico. British Ministers and officials at our Embassy in Mexico City regularly raise our human rights concerns with the Mexican Government, including freedom of religion or belief and the treatment of the Christian community.

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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