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Minatu Ahl Shikh

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Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 111836, tabled on 6 November 2017

Question

Alan Brown
Scottish National Party
Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will raise with the Moroccan Ambassador to the UK the need for an independent investigation into the death of Minatu Ahl Shikh.

Answer

Alistair Burt
Conservative
North East Bedfordshire
Commons

Answered on

15 November 2017

We are aware of the death of Minatu Ahl Shikh. The local public prosecutor issued a statement confirming the conclusions of a private autopsy that she had drowned and that there was no evidence of physical or sexual violence.

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