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Tashi Wangchuk

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Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 58395, tabled on 20 December 2016

Question

Tim Loughton
Conservative
East Worthing and Shoreham
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the case of Tashi Wangchuk was raised in the recent UK-China Human Rights Dialogue; and if he will make a statement.

Answer

Alok Sharma
Conservative
Reading West
Commons

Answered on

9 January 2017

We raised the case of the Tibetan language advocate, Tashi Wangchuk, at the UK-China human rights dialogue, which took place on 27 October. We urged the Chinese authorities to release him from detention.

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